Cannabis Confessions

24/04/2007

You're quite right about not fussing over whether Cameron smoked dope when he was fifteen. Who cares? When I was fifteen I fenced a stolen garage of a concrete manufacturer and had sex with a few under age girls - but so did lots of others. All of this stuff was against the law - ha ha - but like Cameron I never got rumbled. But neither Cameron nor I are "bad" or worthy of the "shock, horror" response.

Cameron's problem seems to be that anything about drugs these days is the wickedest thing in the world, compounded by the fact that he's the leader of the "Law and Order/hanging/birching/lock-up law breakers" political party, and that sort of thing has been its bedrock for generation - especially with older members.

So if any Saga-Tories rear up at Cameron for his law breaking pot smoking, he should tell them: "Look, we Conservatives would do anything, absolutely anything to get power at Westminster Palace (a nest of white-collar criminals if ever there was on!) so back off!

And anyway, on average a new law has been passed every day for the last ten years - so I should think we're all criminals by now.

Yours, both old and wise,

M. Stirner, Bristol