A cannabis-smoking delinquent was free to rape and strangle a 16-old-girl after social services admitted they were 'powerless' to stop him.
20-year-old Zakk Sackett is facing a life sentence today for the murder of Jessie Wright which was the culmination of a sustained reign of terror on the estate where he lived.
Residents and social services on the estate in north London had already expressed their fears in emails that he was 'going to end up killing someone'.
Sackett became obsessed with Miss Wright, a former convent schoolgirl, before attacking and strangling her while high on cannabis.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376145/Cannabis-smoking-youth-raped-strangled-girl-16-social-workers-said-powerless-intervene.html
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shit makes you crazy
Really, the media in the UK love a story with any kind of weed input :facepalm: :mad:
Edit - just saw it's from the Daily Mail
Also this.
Like the NRA's 'Guns don't kill people either, people kill people.' argument, the 'drugs aren't bad, people are bad' argument is just as flimsy. Socially, some drugs are pretty much fucking awful: alcohol, meth, nicotine1. Contrast this with caffeine, it has its drawbacks but people don't usually kill each other as a result of consuming it, however much they "can't handle it".
1) As part of tobacco consumption.
Because all they've done is take one thing that the guy happened to be doing at the same time and decided amongst themselves that it was the cause, and to present it as the cause.
The Daily Mail, like all newspapers, is in the business of appealing to its readership.Then again their association between [url=http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d738.full
]cannabis use and psychosis[/url] (leading to violence) isn't unjustified, just unprovable.
Yes, it's as big a fucking mess as it sounds.
In contrast the guy has the look of someone who's surprised they've made it this far in life without being euthanized.
Not necessarily saying it's bad, but as proof of just how Right wing the History of the Daily Mail is pretty well known here in the UK.