If dope is such a ‘soft’ drug, why was Kim murdered?
MEANWHILE, normal folly continues. I note that, for the third time in 20 years, the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee is to conduct an inquiry into drugs policy. I have no doubt that it will do as before and take the fashionable line.
It will claim that the nonexistent ‘war on drugs’ has ‘failed’. It will praise various disastrous attempts around the world to soften the law on drugs. It will ignore the success of Japan and South Korea in discouraging drug abuse by prosecuting abusers. It will be beguiled by the slick smiling marijuana lobby into sympathising with calls to be even weaker in dealing with that terrible drug.
Yet in real Britain, the fruit of these stupid policies, in place for decades, is easily seen. In a recent case of a type which is increasingly common,
Charles Dearden, 31, admitted the manslaughter of his mother, Kim Dearden, 63.
Everyone knew he was dangerous. Everyone knew he was a dope smoker. Nobody connected the two, or did anything serious about it.
The day before the crime, he had been taken to a mental hospital after attacking his mother. Police called to the scene found him stark naked and her with a bloodshot eye and scratch marks on her neck. She told anyone who would listen that she blamed his marijuana use.
Soon afterwards he was (of course) let out, went home again and stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife, before trying to strangle the family dog.
Kim’s last words, heard by a neighbour, were: ‘Please leave me alone. Please don’t do it, Charles, don’t do it.’ Despite the grim tally of its users who have gone violently mad among us, and the many more who have just lost their minds, marijuana is still crazily viewed as a ‘soft’ drug. Some people even think it is a medicine. Its possession is barely prosecuted.
So now Kim is dead and all the police, judges and psychiatrists in the world cannot bring her back to life. Worse, they and Parliament and much of our media will do nothing to save the many others who will suffer similar fates in the years to come. Shame on the lot of them.