In 2003, Home Office minister Hazel Blears admitted experimenting once with cannabis. A week after it emerged the incoming head of the Crown Prosecution Service was once convicted of possessing the drug, the junior minister said she tried cannabis about 25 years ago. "I literally had cannabis once from somebody that I knew and I literally never did it again because basically it didn't work. It had no effect on me," she said.
Does she think we are stupid? The way she words her statement and the overuse of the word 'literally', indicates that she is lying. Like a teenager caught doing something naughty. Even if (BIG IF) she is telling the truth, the statement is damning, because she says she didn't try it again because it didn't work! So not on any moral grounds then? It must be assumed that if it had worked she would have used it again. Furthermore I think she should be tested under laboratory conditions to discover why cannabis doesn't work on her, she could be a miracle of modern science. The dozy, lying bitch!
The things people say!
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Earlier this year, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said: "I tried cannabis once when I was a student. It didn't do anything for me and I never tried it again. I've not used any other illegal drug."
I acquired these quotes from MSN News. Twenty MPs admitting to having tried cannabis. It is the way these two word their confessions that I find strange. Most of the others admit to it and say nothing more or say they did/didn't like it. No problem.
"I did not have sexual relations with that goat,whoops!,sorry woman".
Likewise I don't care if they tried it (pot that is not goat sex),but just tell the truth,they were not publicly elected officials then.
The McCanns' spokeswoman, Justine McGuinness, said:
"But it is impossible to say whether, had there been an adult in the apartment at the time of the abduction, it would have stopped a predator."
I smoked cannabis when I was a student. Many times. Only for a laugh and because it was cheaper than buying ale. Although I have always prefered a bevvy to a spliff.
I have no problem whatsoever with people of my generation admitting to having done so.
There needs top be some sort of thought given to what was smoked then and what is smoked now.
There is no comparison. Stuff these days is far more powerful and psychotic than I ever knew.
So, if senior poiliticians have 'fessed up to smoking the odd spliff years ago ..... I could not give a flying fark.
If they were still doing it then that would be different.
And yet they weren't being as open as might seem. The main figures fell back on the age-old line of having tried it once and never again.
I've never met anyone who tried cannabis as a student in the Eighties and failed to inhale. Nor do I know people who had "just one" spliff. You might not have taken to it, but that decision wasn't made in the prudish manner of these announcements.
Not strictly a direct quote but you've got to laugh:
George Galloway is currently the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow.
This is one of George's quotes though:
"I am on the anti-imperialist left... If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe." Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, September 16, 2002.
"There was last night the greatest tide that ever was remembered in England to have been in this river, all Whitehall having been drowned."
Samuel Pepys 7th December 1663.
It seems that even then the earth was plunging into a nuclear winter!
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) young and make decision we probably shouldnt have.
