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UK: Column: Huff And Puff ... But Don't Make It Legal Peter McKay Daily Mail Monday 16 Oct 2000 Pubdate: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 Source: Daily Mail Copyright: 2000 Associated Newspapers Ltd Website: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ Author: Peter McKay HUFF AND PUFF ... BUT DON'T MAKE IT LEGAL IN THE SEVENTIES, the Earl of Longford flew to the continent to investigate pornography, which had been identified as anew threat to our way of life. Now, writer Alexander Chancellor, 60, accompanied by his 73-year-old brother John has been flown to Amsterdam by a Sabbath paper to report on a new peril, marijuana. Alex, who had never tried dope before, didn't care for it much, but John found it 'quite agreeable'. They also visited a cannabis museum, which said use of the drug was prevalent in 450 BC. I didn't know that, but it was around during my teenage years in Fifties Aberdeen. By the time it has got that far north, you had to smoke a pound of it before anything happened. Presumably, its potency had been reduced to make supplies go further. My chief memory is how easily one was amused under its influence. If, while sharing a joint, one was thought to have held on to it too long, someone would say: 'I sense the presence of Monsieur "Oggin Le Joint.' This never failed to reduce everyone present to helpless tears of laughter. Why French citizenship was conferred upon the joint hogger I'll never know. Anyway, I and everyone I know who took it then tired of the experience. As the Bible says: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Should marijuana be legalised? According to an EU report quoted by Mr Chancellor, 37.5pc of 15 to 16-year-olds in Britain have tried it compared with 31.1pc in Holland. This suggests being illegal makes it more attractive. Maybe, but it also prevents some young people from trying anything more dangerous which remains illegal. A majority still fears that unlimited access to porn and soft drugs will destroy our will to lead decent loves. Who can say they are wrong?
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