Dad jailed for giving dying daughter medicinal cannabis.

If you think using ad-hominem attacks is the way to go then I'm not going to continue debating with you.

Whatever you have to do that allows you to ignore the fact that marijuana smoke contains 3 times as much tar and 5 times as much carbon monoxide.

I'm sorry but I'm not going to let people get away with spouting complete bull****, and you should be ashamed for doing so.

I'm not speaking without experience or demanding prohibition. I think marijuana should be legal, and in my adult life I've probably spent about 3 cumulative years smoking weed everyday.

People should be able to smoke it if they want, but don't pretend it's not harmful when smoked regularly or heavily, it clearly is. And it clearly slows down brain function.

Marijuana smoke may have 3 times as much tar as cigarettes but that doesn't mean that there aren't alternative ways of taking in THC which don't involve any kind of smoking.

I haven't read into all the science of the link between mental illness and weed but I have read literature on the subject which is critical of the conclusion that Marijuana smoking causes psychosis.

In any case I think this is a minor error in the scheme of things when you consider the lies and misinformation that have been peddled to the population by governments to support the prohibitionist policy.

It seems the one who can't read an abstract is you. That study says that occasional or low cumulative marijuana use was not associated with adverse affects on the pulmonary system.

It does not say that heavy marijuana use is not associated with adverse affects on the pulmonary system.

It's not near as bad, it's far worse.

Cannabis has significantly more tar in it than tobacco, as well as other harmful chemicals.

http://adai.uw.edu/marijuana/factsheets/respiratoryeffects.htm

No you don't. A judge can do his job and judge.

I just looked it up and it seems that's correct about aspirin, but it's also the case that the guidance seems to be that yo shouldn't give aspirin to children.

That kind of understanding is what you get when you have the benefit of medical research. No such research exists forgiving cannabis to children so you might as well beplaying Russian roulette with their health

Much like dietary supplements. So..... should parents that give their child aspirin or dietary supplements be punished?

That second sentence really didn't make much sense


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How so? The judge has to "judge" whether the person should be punished even if he broke a law. Consider kids trespassing unknowingly. A judge can see and look ok the sign is old it was dark they have no history of civil disobedience, for the sake of the court to save money and not to ruin the kids future over this, I dismiss the case. Something like that.

Of course marijuana is not quite the same as trespassing, but the point is in this situation I am of the opinion the judge should have "judged" this case to have no merit, the father to not require punishment.

Firstly a judges job is not really to judge. They can throw a case out but that would rarely happen in a criminal trial as the CPS would be unlikely to take such a frivolous case to court and a decent solicitor would do the same. Whether or not someone has done something illegal is for a jury or magistrates to decide, they judge if someone has done something wrong.

I don't think you really understand how frivolous a case has to be for a judge to throw it out, this case is very worthy regardless of whether you agree with the law or not. The father factually supplied an illegal drug to a minor and in doing so he knew he was breaking the law thus he has both mens rea and actus reus. I don't imagine either or these were particularly difficult for the CPS to demonstrate and thus at first instance they would have had a strong case

I'm not saying it will or does happen. But that it should. And he can just say he acted in good faith and not send him to jail.

1. He didn't, he acted knowing what he was doing was illegal
2. If a jury says he is guilty a judge will have to impose some punishment inline with sentencing guidelines


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1. Same way you can kill someone in good faith (i.e. self defense), they can decide he acted in good faith helping his daughter.

I mean I appreciate the law doesn't work that way, but I am saying it should. Why even have judges if they can't do exactly this.