Spliff -> Psychosis -> Delusions

QED. I sincerely apologize for ever doubting it. Clearly there are some in whom cannabis creates delusions that they can sort the world out.

The ability to talk bollocks late into the night is important for politicians too though.

UPDATE: The BBC has been mulling over whether such revelations actually matter. They (and others ) seem to be implying that so long as people got up to such hijinx before they became "respectable politicians" what they got up to is probably of no issue now.

But actually, on an issue like this it does indeed matter. They are, if you like, living proof that one can indulge a little and not screw up your life entirely (unless one takes the line, as I am increasingly wont to do, that being a politician by definition is screwing up at least others' lives and probably not doing justice to the politician's own talents other than for meddling).

The moral panic crowd want us to believe that getting involved with drugs of any kind is going to outlaw you forever, probably harm you physically and mentally, and leave you on the scrapheap of life. Clearly this is not the case. And the stench of hypocrisy hangs around such people who now tell us that what did no harm to them is something we cannot possibly make up our own mind about.

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