Cannabis has a terrible reputation and that’s why it’s illegal. There are thousands of documented cases of heavy users tipping over into paranoia and schizophrenia, especially in the young whose brains are not fully developed. Skunk today is much stronger and more dangerous than the varieties used in the 1960s. It’s true that not everyone who smokes pot ends up using harder drugs like heroin or crack cocaine but almost everyone who takes harder drugs started with cannabis.
But it obviously hasn’t affected Sir Paul McCartney who admits to having a life-long love affair with the drug. At 69, he’s decided to give it up now so he can be a better parent to his eight year old daughter Beatrice. But it looks likely his ex wife Heather Mills made him an offer he couldn't refuse. She argued that he could hardly warn their daughter about the dangers of drugs while sneaking away to have a secret puff himself. And there's another theory, he's now married to a much younger woman and cannabis is notorious for suppressing a man's sex drive.
Sir Paul once said he was a ‘pot virgin’ when first introduced to the drug by Bob Dylan and then went on to use heroin, cocaine, LSD and other psychedelics but here he is today, still standing and with a knighthood to boot.
Sir Paul McCartney is a global ambassador for Britain and should denounce drugs unequivocally and tell the world just how dangerous they really are and how many lives they have ruined. RIP Whitney Houston.
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