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OLLAR up, thick coat, moody look – Jeremy Kyle always looks ready for a fight. Years of confrontations on his infamous family feud talk show will have done that to him.
Jeremy is certainly argumentative – that’s his USP – and he’s quite prepared to give people a hard time if he thinks they are wrong. But he’s not afraid to confront the issues an get to the crux of the matter.
This new series sees Jeremy investigate high-profile issues, from drug-taking to acid attacks, body obsession to overstretched emergency services.
Each week he works with the emergency services, films covertly, interviews victims and confronts protagonists to demand answers. And the result is perhaps surprisingly compelling and packs a lot in.
In this episode, he investigates whether cannabis should be made legal in the UK. An age-old talking point, but Jeremy brings fresh discussions to the debate. He goes out with the police on a dawn cannabis raid, finding a huge haul of marijuana plants, and later visits a cannabis cafe.
He also interviews a man who supplies illegal, medicinal cannabis oils to the parents of sick children. Jeremy is taken aback to meet one such parent, the mother of a terminally ill son, is also a police woman.
But perhaps most poignant is an interview with Lord Nicholas Monson, who tells how his son Rupert developed psychosis from skunk (strong cannabis) and later committed suicide.
A fascinating insight into every angle of a hotly debated issue.