Rehash our daft drugs laws

I’VE been inhaling potent “skunk” cannabis every day for months and it’s making me sick. I should explain, it’s not me who’s got a drug habit, but a neighbour. He gets home from work at 5am, skins-up a spliff and the sickly aroma seeps down the corridor and under the door into my joint. Ironically though, it wakes me up – leaving me narked rather than narcotised. So I’ve asked him to get an extractor fan or I’ll dob him in to the management company. As a nuisance – like someone playing loud music at all hours. Because I haven’t got a problem with anyone smoking weed in the privacy of their own homes (preferably hermetically sealed ones). And neither does William Hague, who has just surprised many by calling for cannabis to be decriminalised. The former Tory leader used to have the same zero tolerance views as Theresa May. But now Billy Whizz reckons it’s time to rethink our drugs laws to begin controlling

IN 1999, when I worked for another newspaper, the editor was very excited about the impending millennium.

So he decided to send me to Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot wearing a hat shaped like the Millennium Dome.

I got out of the job – by resigning. But ever since I’ve been fascinated by the headwear on display at the annual titfer tournament.

This year’s star was the Duchess of Sussex, right, channeling Eliza Doolittle the sale of cannabis. I agree. I have tried cannabis. It helps the nerve pain I suffer but always makes me horribly sick.

And I have a friend who was hospitalised with psychosis after smoking skunk heavily for years – so I know the lows as well as the highs. But it can transform the lives of people with painful and debilitating conditions.

Like Billy Caldwell, 12, whose epileptic seizures were helped by cannabis oil his mum got in Canada – and which was then seized by UK border officials.

The Home Secretary eventually allowed the lad his medicine, temporarily, but the Government still refuses to follow the 17 countries worldwide who’ve approved cannabis for medical use. They could do so easily and help thousands more kids and adults like Billy.

And then consider fully legalising cannabis, like Canada has just done.

Because weeding out evil dealers and controlling the quality of drugs in a regulated market will reduce health risks.

It could also raise £3.5billion a year to help stop our struggling NHS going to pot.

It’s time for our politicians to take a deep breath - and relax these outdated drug laws.

in My Fair Lady. Didn’t she look loverly? But the booby prize goes to “actress” and ex-model Kelly Brook in her World Cup confection. In what appeared to be a DIY job she’d glued a figure of Bobby Moore holding the Jules Rimet trophy on to a big red tray, then added a few doilies. Not a winning look, love. But at least the 1966 hat got you in the papers and reminded agents your career is struggling on. In case they think it’s all over…