Cannabis news

Newspapers continue in their outdated sensationalist reporting on cannabis, sprouting the usual, ‘what about the children’ and ‘mental illness’ tag-lines and wheeling out government ‘message’ after ‘message’ in a vain hope of selling more newspapers. Hacks are falling over themselves to present their yellow propaganda to please their despotic editors.

They pontificate and fluster in righteous indignation, often presenting a simple cannabis grower as a hardened criminal or as a foreigner! Their jingoism overflowing in such news reporting as ‘Vietnamise or Chinese Gang Running Cannabis Factory’, like a foreigner’s ethnicity and homeland do not matter to the white british readership, just their foreign-ness and the fact they are running a DRUG factory.

There is no doubt that the government have put pressure on media to present cannabis in a negative way while not reporting on the beneficial side, but not all forms of media are towing the party line. Recently we had the Horizon program on cannabis, which although did not blow the trumpet for legalisation, at least gave out some truth and a more adult and realistic message than the Home Secretary is capable of.