Peter Hitchens' Half Hour: "Pause Campaigns To Legalise Cannabis After Possible Schizophrenia Link"
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- Marijuana may be linked to 30 per cent of schizophrenia cases in young men, a study by the National Institutes of Health has suggested.
TalkTV’s Mike Graham is joined by Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens to discuss the study, along with other big stories.
Peter says: “There’s an extraordinary resistance to drawing any conclusions from this, because there’s this huge campaign to legalise marijuana.”
#peterhitchens #talktv #talkradio
Alcohol is far worse than cannabis. As for the mental health issue, sure that is a possibility but I’ve smoked it for over 35 years and it hasn’t affected my mental health. The problem is the strong strains of cannabis like Skunk etc that are available. Crazy fact is that it’s easier for a 13 year old to buy cannabis than it is for them to buy alcohol or cigarettes.
It's also due to all of the chemicals in which the growers spray on the plants.
No care for the consumer, only money incentives.
Tobacco is worse than both
That's like the 100 a day fags and i never got cancer argument. Drugs are bad. Booze is bad. Everyone should be free to take what they want. But it shouldn't be society's prolem when it goes bad. How many people do you think would sign a waiver?
I agree that the strength is now a problem, legalising it can cure that, I've seen people hallucinating after smoking weed, and that was never my experience when I was younger
@@firebyrd437 but drug dealers will just sell stronger stuff.
Just fyi If you google the % of schizophrenia sufferers who are alcohol users / dependent you find similar numbers.
All the more reason not to legalise this smelly, dangerous drug.
Legalising cannabis should be done. The problem is that the strength can not be controlled unless it's legalised. Cannabis is very different from when I was young and for some hallucinations are becoming normal instead of just relaxing you and making you happy, the effect that has on your brain is very different from a milder strain of cannabis
Dealers will just sell strong stuff then.
@Ralph Davidson they will, but the majority of people will buy the legalised stuff, and that's important. Also, those who use it for medical reasons can benefit because they are paying exorbitant prices for private prescriptions
Just because something becomes legal doesn’t mean it will hold a monopoly over the market. There will always be cheaper ‘illegal’ alternatives to the higher quality, lower strength regulated cannabis.
Thus, the controlled drugs will be the legal ones. The illegal ones won’t suddenly be controlled
@@firebyrd437 I watched a clip recently that stated that in us states that have legalised cannabis dealers ate thriving...with their stronger, untaxed cheaper product
@Tom Wilko most people using cannabis would prefer the legal route, also the UK isn't the same as America.
Dr Max Pemberton believes we have 50000 cases of psychosis in Britain caused by weed . Also it’s three times more carcenagenic than tobacco and for many it’s a gateway to heroin eventually. Well done to Mike and Peter Hitchens for raising this issue.
Most on heroin started with booze.
@@oldschoolcockneylover8138 Tony Blair’s drug “tsar” Keith Helliwell said he’d never met a heroin addict who hadn’t started on weed .
Cannabis is not the gateway to heroin, the drug dealer is.
@@thomas05ish well I don’t believe anyone who advises Tony Blair after what he got up to. Plus any heroin addict I know and trust I know loads as I have worked in that field started with alcohol its usually the first thing anyone does isn’t it? And most who drink don’t go on to do anything else.
@@oldschoolcockneylover8138 Keith Helliwell resigned or was sacked by Blair because he told him what he didn’t want to hear . Blair and Jack Straw didn’t appreciate weed was much stronger than in their student days when they decriminalised it.
Many uses for cannabis..
Like getting high?
I wonder how many cases of lung cancer cases are caused by cigarettes...Or how many cases of liver failure are caused by alcoholism...
All of Peters points here are ridiculous and all apply to alcohol and prescription painkillers in equal measure.
"What if your bus driver was high" ... What is he was drunk? What if he was off his face on prescription opiates. These are all current possibilities its just cultural nimbyism to say that marijuana would be any worse.
Huge link to throat and tongue cancer because harsher than tobacco
@@meredithisme3752 So does oral sex and thats as popular as ever. Personal autonomy is a right and nobody has the right to say that a grown adult cannot posses a plant that is of this planet.
Big up Mike/Talk for giving Hitchens his half hour every week, one of my favourite political pundits.
Until my antidepressants can do what weed does for me, I'll never not smoke it haha.
Far better than all the alcoholic scum round here
"possible"? it is quite likely that 50% of crime is some way alcohol related.
With all due respect, the presenter needs to allow Mr Hitchens the time to articulate his responses without being spoken over the top and interrupted. Slow down, just breathe....
I think Mike is a fairly talkative person himself, rather than a listener.
Hitchens should really pick more worthwhile battles. His constant war against cannabis is fckn ludicrous 🙄
he is correct
@@mrsthatcher9815 You're misinformed.
@@Theseus2399 haha how so?
@@Theseus2399 FYI ive worked in acute mental health for 25 years and im here to tell you he is correct and has been known about as a major problem for decades.
@@Theseus2399 Nah just straight lying.
It's so easy to rebut the stoners arguments.
I wonder why 😂😂😂
I smoked weed ever day for about 3.5 years. The first 3 years it was fantastic. I really enjoyed it, it helped me to learn a lot and I got interested in things that I wouldn't have been when sober. I made great friends because of it (I was at uni). I used it as a way to motivate me to get a lot done during the day. But towards the end I started to go a little bit mental. It started giving me extremely dark and negative thoughts whenever I smoked it. I thought maybe it was just a coincidence, or a bad batch, or something like that. But this went on for months. Eventually I had to come to terms this was probably a permanent change and I quit. Quitting was pretty easy because it became such a miserable experience for me. But it was hard to accept that the great feeling I got when I first started smoking weed was gone and never coming back. I did a lot of research into it and it seems that I was beginning to develop psychosis, so it's good I quit when I did or else it could've got much worse.
The point I'm making is that there is a big myth that goes around that weed has NO negative effects whatsoever, only positive effects. It's not true. I know some people smoke weed their whole lives and it's great for them, and I am happy for them. But it's not like that for everybody, and I am proof of that, and from what I read similar things have happened to quite a lot of other people as well. I wouldn't be comfortable with it being legalised if people aren't going to tell the truth about the potential negative effects of it. It would be a terrible thing if innocent people get mental damage because they think it's harmless. I would be more comfortable with it being legalised if people were told the truth that there's a 10% chance (or whatever the probability is) they'd develop psychosis if they smoke it too much. But if people are going to be told it's completely harmless with no negative effects (as a LOT of people currently believe), then I would be concerned about it being legal.
I mean, no one with any sense is going to advocate being a daily user. It wouldn't be good with alcohol, it's not with weed.
Used responsibly, it's pretty safe.
@@drummingtildeath no it is not - what qualifies you to say that?
@Mrs Thatcher ...the fact that nearly everyone that struggles with cannabis psychosis are heavy users. People who smoke several times a day.
People don't generally smoke a joint or two and lose their minds. It's down to heavy use.
@@drummingtildeath not from what ive seen with patients over the years
@@drummingtildeath you are simply clueless
It's now worthy of note that you can get an appointment with a GP like some major achievement.
Socialized healthcare....
Who areyou or anyone else to tell adults what they can and cannot put into their own body....?????
Respect my lifestyle like your religion i'd say. Alcohol is everywhere day & night even on Star Trek, emancipation works fine for it so why not cannabis that won't kill?...
Finally someone gets to.the heart.of the argument. You are exactly right. Mr. Hitchens wants to run everyone else's life.
No doubt the negative effects of weed on the brain can be severe - they were for me - but that doesn't mean it should be illegal. Infact it could be argued that there are more people struggling with adverse effects from smoking BECAUSE it is illegal
Or it could be argued, don't f***ing smoke it at all, period. Safest bet.
You're right, your brain has been severely impaired.
@@SagaciousFrankSure it's the safest, and that's how you choose to live your life, fair enough. Some people are happy to occasionally do potentially dangerous things to enjoy more of what life has to offer. Whether this is going for a bungee jump or smoking a bit of weed. The answer is not to make things illegal but to educate, just like people are educated (or at least know) the dangers of other activities. I hope you live up to your values in all ways and never do anything that has any potential negative effects
@@rorybessell8280 , doing rock climbing, sky diving, or bunjie jumping as you suggested, is a false parallel and not comparable to getting mentally stupefied for the sake of pleasure - although evidently you've deluded yourself that they have equal merit and value. Physical activities which incur a level of risk have many physical and mental benefits. Whereas drugs taken purely for pleasure do not, and is not comparable to doing something which requires real courage and sometimes skill, training, and experience to achieve.
Besides which, have you ever heard of kids at school being peer pressured by their contemporaries into doing a bungie jump?
Taking drugs is for cowards and copouts, just as Bobby Womack sung in 110th Street.
Fighting a lost cause instead of the present battles. No logical argument can be made to suggest that smoking weed is less dangerous than driving cars, motorbikes, rock climbing etc etc. People want to do it. Tax it, regulate it and use additional tax to fix a real problem
I ride motorcycles mate…. smoking cannabis and having psychosis is a ridiculous argument
Besides, why hand organized crime all the income from Cannabis, when the state could use the taxes to fund anti-drug programmes in schools etc.
@@staceyleeellis9160 Do you know how many bikers are killed by drivers a year? Psychosis is no joke but not everyone gets that. If anything dangerous should be banned, life would never be fun. Legalise everything possible and tax it. That's the logical approach. Especially given we can't even stop murders and rapes!
@@AAWT Exactly.
@@AAWT yeah, check up on our 30% taxes here in California. It's cheaper to buy it from the guy you knew from highschool.
I HATE the self serve supermarkets, I am disabled and it is very difficult to use these things,the level id lower than a normalt tine and is bad for your back, there is nowhere to put my crutch, and you cannot put your own bag on the packing station, as that casues the thing to bleep, then the endless further beeping, anything reduced, any alcohol, looking up fruit and veg with Tomatoes under fruit and anything where the thing won't scan, a total pain!!! I am surprised that they are allowed to do this, as I feel it is discriminatory. Their answer is, I can use a till, based of course on the assumption that as a disabled person, I do not work and have all the time in the world to waste, as I still work I do have all day to do unpaid work for Tesco or Sainsbury's.
Don't use self service. You're depriving someone of a job
Whats the point in it being illegal anyway? Its extremely easy to get and the police dont care. I was in town the other day and my guitarist was smoking a joint outside the rehearsal rooms. Police walked past and totally ignored what he was doing.
Being illegal makes it easier for young people to get hold of it - no 18+ rule. It also makes it harder to control quality and ensures the government gets no revenue. Plus it criminalises people like me who dont do anything else 'wrong' and dont bother anyone.
Police have been given instructions from above not to police possession of cannabis. If the possession laws were enforced like they were in the past, potheads like yourself would not be so confident in smoking it in public.
Nah, correlation isn't causation. People in pain, depression, stress, anxiety, seeking escape etc take drugs.
Those problems are just as likely to be there in the first place.
Peter knows 'post-hoc ergo propter hoc' and falls right in it time and again. His brother would have made mincemeat of him.
Peter Hitchens should move back to Russia if he loves authoritarian policies so much.
My brother’s life was destroyed by marijuana. He spent 40 years in and out of mental hospitals until he died at 66
Loads of my friends a dead because of alcohol.
Alcohol destroyed my father, and all his uncles lives. And their wives and kids lives
You have any data that it was cannabis that caused that?
We're already the worlds biggest exporters of medical cannabis. Ask Victoria Atkinson or her husband. People will smoke marijuana legal or not. In fact there is an argument for the more illicit the substance seems, the more attractive it is to the youth. First weed is the gateway drug to heroin, now its the cause of schizophrenia.
Cannabis has improved the lives of a lot of people. Fact.
@Olly O You're
They wouldn't smoke it if the possession laws were harsher. Currently there is zero deterrent for smelly potheads.
Make the legal age 25 then. Simple.
It is a awful drug these days however compared to alcohol and nicotine vapes its nothing, alcohol and cigarettes are the real gateway
This man is absolutely obsessed with cannabis. He's fighting a losing battle anyway, because it's only going to be legalised in more places around the world including the UK eventually. Legalise, regulate and tax would be the best option. People are going to use it regardless of the legality, so we might as well have a situation where people can buy it from approved shops. Customers know what they are getting, it creates tax revenue and takes control away from organised crime.
Legalization in Canada has not cut into organized crime. Black market cannabis still exists because the taxes and cost are around 2x the price of black market. Cigarettes are the same way. It just makes the criminals more violent, because if they do get caught the consequences are much more severe. When you start stealing from the government they will throw the book at you.
@@factsdontlie4342 Don't forget to mention our catalog of 96 Pest Control "sanitory" Products assorted with a *NON-DETECTION* concept, while toxicities don't just add up: they multiply. All with no long-term studies simply because in absence of combinatorial C(n, r) restrictions the number of savvy synergy-boosted recipes to systematically test quickly range as astronomical. In short "legal=safer" is a myth and we won't get the big picture until a couple generations of guinea-pigs.
Euh... Considering there's about ~1 g of water per 28 g bag just dare try to justify over-taxing of water sold 10000 times what it usually costs...
@@factsdontlie4342Last I heard you guys can buy a gram for like $3 That's fucking nuts.
Not at all. He makes a strong argument. You simply disagree with him and it makes you angry that he doesn't share your pothead view of the world.
It’s amazing how you’re fine to buy alcohol and cigarettes but not cannabis? How on earth does that work?
Because Jesus turned water into wine, not a Dobbie.
You clown
@@tommorgan7599 touché
Well - if you listen to a previous debate between Peter and Mike, Peter said that he would restrict alcohol use by getting rid of the 24 hour drinking laws, only allowing pubs and restaurants to serve it, and it only being available to purchase from an off-licence.
@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat it should be banned entirely
I worked in a YOI (Young Offenders Institution) for many years and I can confirm that the proportion of young men in custody with psychosis and schizophrenia is way higher than in the general population.
In conversations I had with them many of those suffering had been dealing and smoking weed regularly from the age of 10.
The damage done to their developing brains by weed could not be reversed by the time they presented as teenagers in prison.
If kids are taking any drug whatsoever at age ten it's going to cause them problems. I don't think those of us wanting to let people freely purchase cannabis are suggesting it should be given to young children without a specific medical reason.
So how is it staying illegal going to help?
You can get it anywhere easily. So what's the point of the old bill enforcing the law?
@@Norfolkandchance886 Mr Hitchen's contention is that the law is not being enforced properly and that users need to be targeted as well. He has a book on it which goes into this.
Lot more that are arrested for alcohol weekends
@@richardfowler9901 Yeah you're right but not many have lasting effects from that I don't think
Spot on when you said they simply ignore the mental health effects of the stuff. Please will reach a conclusion to this before they think about legalising it, I’ve lost my brother to schizophrenia and my son has it now, both smoked the stuff and the health workers all said it’s probably the stuff. I know it relieves pain but if it does cause schizophrenia, trust me that’s not a pain you want your family to experience
genetics causes schizophrenia, alcohol causes schizophrenia, the way the world is now IS schizophrenic
you can just stop because of the possibility of a link, lets get rid of the established problems first
Food has a similar problem with mental health - we see anorexics and bulimia a lot yet I dont see food being banned. Same with alcohol - many mental issues with alcohol also yet no calls for bans. If mental health is such a major concern we should ban all social interaction also because of those people that get bullied. The likelihood is that both your brother and son already had schizophrenia and it would have revealed itself anyway - blaming cannabis is like blaming a the knife instead of the person stabbing someone..
Dec O
Too much oxygen is bad for human health, as is too little. Perhaps we should ban oxygen as well.
Correlation is not causation. They already had problems and were self medicating. The damage done by prohibition and institutional and general social bigotry is never considered. People who self medicate are often being harassed for it and harassment can only hurt.
It never fails to amaze me that in spite of the evidence of your testomony, people use the most amazing mental gymnastics to make the case for legalising cannabis. I too have witnessed countless times mainly young men suffering schizophrenia and the resulting harms as a result of their cannabis use. Yes, some are probably genetically more predisposed to suffering harm but the harm done justifies keeping it illegal. Yes alcohol can cause huge harms but that doesn't mean we need another substance causing even more widespread harm.
I remember dealing with Legal Highs and the harm caused to young people was horrendous. They were made illegal and young people stopped using and dying from them.
Weed is LEGAL 2018 legislation was brought in,for god's sake at least educate yourself on something before you pontificate about it
If we start turning the spotlight on relative harms then the most studied harmful substance in everyday use is alcohol. Not sure how many people want to go down that route as the numbers of deaths and severe illness both mental and physical are increasing and frightening at 9,641 directly attributed deaths ,up from 8,974 in 2020, on top of these you have the drink related violence on our streets and at home etc. £7 billion is also lost in the workplace all according to gov statistics,versus 0 attributed deaths from cannabis use.
But rich people like Alcohol so it's fine. What the poor people like though, that's the awful stuff.
Why is it that whenever the subject is cannabis, people automatically begin to speak about other things, like tobacco and alcohol? 🤔
@@DaboooogA. It’s called comparison because people who are anti cannabis liberalisation are so dogmatic and refusing to listen to evidence that the only other recourse is the draw a comparison between it and the far more harmful legal drugs. But we won’t have to worry about that too much longer because reform IS coming the rest of the world is already there; we in Britain just need to catch up
The dangers of alcohol are well known, and no one denies them. What you're unhappy about is that your precious smelly drug isn't legal - yet.
@@DaboooogAAlmost like people are pointing out the blatant hypocrisy in society and goverment's views on psychoactive substances. Alcohol has no special benefit than other drugs don't have, in fact it's objectively worse than many, and yet everyone happily drinks away and enjoys the culture of having a drink with friends. The pro-drug argument is that this hypocrisy is stupid and should be ended. There are 2 ways to go about that, either make all drugs illegal (caffeine, nicotine and alcohol) or make none of them illegal. The simple reality is that people will use them all regardless, how do we make that use as safe as possible? By legalising and regulating what people consume and proper education. There is a relatively small community out there of people who use drugs safely and spread information about how to do so, which has done a hell of a lot more good than state-run institutions have because they actually understand the substances
Why does the gammon man just agree with everything the guest says?
because it's called having respect for him. And using the term "gammon" implies you're a hideous lefty
"The gammon man" 😂
Because he is honest. I say you are incorrect in your assumption that he is too weak to disagree. That his listeners are brainwashed zombies who are too stupid to see through fake opinions. No. Anyway, gammon tastes better with mustard.
It works wonders for me, as a legal patient. I'd rather be buying my prescription of flower than a prescription of pills, having now experienced both. More scare mongering as per usual, meanwhile "everyone off to the pub", as per.
20:32 You talk about a pause to any campaigns for legalization whilst you determine if there is any link between cannabis and schizophrenia but may we point out to you that since this quite frankly pseudo-science argument has come out you have had 50 years to do so and you still have not been able to prove it, those affected by schizophrenia I feel sorry for but there is no evidence that can prove that those afflicted would not have contracted it anyway. The fact remains that whilst it remains illegal it will continue to enrich the worst elements of society and will continue to expose our people to harder drugs as the unscrupulous people that sell it currently try to get our young loved ones hooked on harder substances. Legalization and regulation will lead to a healthier society and a windfall of taxes that will benefit the NHS and other vital institutions in this country. Prohibition will never be an effective solution against something that has been consumed by the human race since time began.
The state should not over say over how we may or may not experiment with our own consciousness.
Legalise it 🏴
are you able to manage a psychotic patient? oh yes... thats the job of taxpayers
The beauty of this interviews is that the very next interviewee on this channel was a copper complaining about county lines gangs and how they've "lost the streets". Maybe half of usa + Canada + México Thailand, Germany, Portugal are all crazy. Or not.
@@mrsthatcher9815 well we've got to deal with that anyway since cannabis is everywhere. At least if it was legal we'd raise the funds to help treat people, plus control the strength/THC/CBD/CBN levels.
@@drummingtildeath Think again, it's not happening in "legal" places, because of socio-toxic politi¢ian$ exactly.
The link with schizophrenia has been known for a long time.
It's generally much stronger nowadays . It can trigger psychosis too.
I live in Australia. The service in any shop in Australia is so good that it annoys me! As soon as I go through the door they greet me and want to help, even in a supermarket.
The Idea of Peter hitchins walking through the home bargins isle is wonderful
Anyone seen a trout or any kind of game in the supermarkets these days? Venison? Forget it.
Theresa Mays husbands got the biggest medicinal cannabis grow in the UK and sells it abroad and profits millions but yet we struggle to get anything like that over here in the uk unless it’s your last resort from doctor
I this this is the main reason why the government isn’t interested in legalisation. The uk already has a thriving cannabis sector and the status quo makes all the right people a lot of money
I’m a History teacher - we DO ‘do’ the D Day landings…
Peters been strangely absent since he went against the Ukraine narrative with Julia
No he hasn’t… he still appears here once a week and writes his columns… what an earth are you talking about lol
@@charlesfrancis9548 , don't think he's on once a week.
Yeah, she really didn't like being told that the Maidan Putsch had a big part of what is happening now.
If ten year olds are out drinking beer , wine and spirits then they are pretty much guaranteed to have an alcohol problem . Are you all willing to Ban that ? Or is it one rule for a certain type of person and another rule for others ? Of I stood 100 people next to each other and have them all peanuts I guarantee one of them would have an allergy to it , do we ban that also ? ....the ignorance and snobbery , double standards and hypocrisy is sickening .
Moronic argument. Have all those smelly spliffs rotted your brain cells?
The problem is that drug dealers compete making their weed stronger, if it was legalised you could regulate the strength and allow people to buy weed suited to them and their health or situation.
You wouldnt go out and drink 80% alcohol all the time you'd buy something much weaker.
People forget about sugar which is doing good bit of damage all by its self .
The interviewer is interupting too much
Peter’s always unintentionally funny but serious 😂 he’s right in that coverage could’ve been better and cameras these days always zoom in too much at huge events.
It's just a continuous drone.
Two toffs, rambling on about toff things
And how many had the jab??
Peter Hitchens certainly did, as he openly said he did in order to travel.
I bet you didn't, right?
So why are still obsessing about it? All of us that got jabbed are perfectly happy, but all the people that didn't get jabbed keep going on about it. It's really weird.
Yes, let's ban alcohol too...causes more issues in society. And let's push through many medications with huge side effects...but not cannabis.
Ban alcohol, good luck with that one.
@@SagaciousFrank haha, exactly! That's when people would take to the streets!
Pair of dinasaurs right there.
More headlines with "possibly" and "May" in them.
This is complete nonsense.
One at a time please, gents.
Not that Hitchens isn't one for interrupting, but Mike often does begin speaking before Hitchens has finished what he's saying.
Smoking a joing now he wants to try it
Peter Hitchens knows absolutely nothing about cannabis - his views are completely irrelevant. 🃏
Actually, it would appear that HItchens' views are now supported by the official evidence.
He knows nothing about being hunted by 'humans' (monsters) - with dogs either. 🃏
Proud to say my dad was a Welsh guard at Churchills funeral.
2:00 Bovril disappeared off the shelves in South Africa in 2020. This was because of a shortage of yeast. Prohibition led to the home brewers cornering the market.
Would you rather have your yeast in a Bovril sandwich, or in your beer?
The fact that it's illegal means dealers increase the potency (same thing happened to alcohol during prohibition) making it far more addictive and dangerous
2 rich English the struggle my soup my bovril. They should live on disability money its so difficult. Watching from Scotland peace and love to all
Imagine celebrating "winning" world war 2 in 2023 given the sequence of events from then to now in almost every way.
Fighting the wrong enemy springs to mind.
Totally agree with Peter - the coronation ceremony was completely underwhelming, and the king and queen looked completely bored themselves.
Who tf listens to PH anymore? He lost all respect when he capitulated and took the jab and tried to convince others to do the same 🙄
To the self proclaimed “expert at everything” - that stuff you want that ain’t on the shelves no more … Brexit maybe?
Medical professionals should be advising on legalisation, not the uneducated dope smokers
Legalise cannabis. Alcohol is the most dangerous drug on Prof. David Nutt's drug list.
Stop talking over Peter Mr. Graham - it’s very annoying and just plain rude!
Mike, you dominate the conversation. Let Peter talk. Stop interrupting so much.
The State Sword was carried by the Marquess of Salisbury at the late Queen's coronation. He wore the full ermine robes of a Marquess, and was followed by a page carrying the marquess's coronet. All the regalia was processed down the aisle of the Abbey carried by various robed aristocrats last time, not placed beforehand on a side altar as this time.
You will find it in France that's because France remains within the EU what a plonker
Thats what happens when you get dealt synthetic cannabis.
Legalise and regulate.
cant be worst than having lizz trust as the PM.. just saying
Wow.. that was an enormous amount of hot air before getting to the interesting part at the end. You really need a younger and preferably less conservative interviewer to get the best out of Peter Hitchens. This was largely two grumpy old men moaning about the modern world and blaming all the wrong things.
What's the matter? Don't you like old men?
It's not for everyone. But neither is alcohol and that is legal and widely available!
Two old men complaining that the world isnt the same as when they were growing up
7:00 The front row in theatres should be called the "nostril seats".
maybe is the same as it might not be
Correction - *Skunk* may be linked to 30 per cent of schizophrenia cases in young men. It's like the cannabis equivalent of absinthe. Often users have no choice but to buy it and smoke it. Can you imagine the havoc that would be wrecked if the only alcohol available was absinthe? Legalise cannabis, and people would have choice of type and strength, and, believe me, given that choice next to no one would choose skunk as their preferred smoke.
It's really not that bad, most people just use less...
Weed is a better drug than alcohol. Change my mind.
A mate of mine was a psychiatric nurse in one of UKs secure hospitals and said half the patients on his wards were people who’d fried their brains with excessive cannabis use.
Sure and thats the only thing they had in common? No childhood traumas? Alcohol abuse? Hard drug usage? Prescribed medication? Depression? Anxiety? Money problems?... Anything you say about cannabis can be said about perfectly legal things to do so what's the difference? The benefits and positive effects of cannabis and the usage of hemp that big pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers currently make billions from 👍
Don’t believe it for a second. Pure bs .
Only thing I don't agree with Mr H is the monarchy
Omg! Would you stop simping for the elites?
Welby was useless. He has to go. Long Live the King.
FFS! LET YOUR GUEST TALK!!!!!!
Home bargains is on the Botley Rd Peter
WEED BAAD!! … I like bovril!’n. BORING
When one is not familiar with home bargains lol
Peter talks so much rubbish when it comes to cannabis . He really doesn’t have a clue . Same goes for Mike .
Disappointing thin on science.
Free the weed
Pair of dinosaurs here 😂😂
‘Apparently Camilla has quite a bit Head’ .. ‘well I wouldn’t know’ 🤣🤣🤣
That's totally missing the point, which is - and I'd love you to debate it - would young people growing up today be better off drinking alcohol, or smoking weed? Because it's very difficult to do both in any reasonable quantity.
Are you stoned?
Right about camera too close in Coronation....we missed the majesty of it
Talk about dentistry in wales three months and you may be able to get an urgent appointment, but you will have to call, the receptionist recently told my son to get a do it yourself kit. Absolutely appalling.
I’m a Private patient and I can’t get an appointment before September for a crown prep! The tooth will have fallen apart by then and will probably be uncrownable.
Stop saying yes yes yes
Hitchens is deluded his borther is worth a listen though
I thought his brother was dead
Seance presumably.
Christopher was another liberal (and pompous) wordsmith. I liked him enough not to care to much about his opinions. RIP.
Not really. His brother was a bit of an idiot who supported the invasion of Iraq.
Lets make the dealers richer , logic there from Peter lol
You haven't understood his argument. Maybe lay of the weed so you can grasp simple points a bit easier?
@@goodyeoman4534 Maybe you should tell my Dr who prescribes my "weed" that they are wrong for doing so as you seem so well educated on the matter .
@@goodyeoman4534 Also really should check your own grammar before trying to come across smart ! "lay of" think you mean "lay off " But at a guess id say your most likely quite old and vote for the same rhetoric policies that now see the UK in such a mess as we are today . Meanwhile in the USA many states are legal and most are decriminalized and if you bothered to do any research instead of listening to your gospel choir , you would soon see the evidence has been positive .