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by Peter Hitchens Mail on Sunday, posted 02 08 2020

France spots the link between Marijuana and Violence

In France, a brief flash of good sense. The new Prime Minister, Jean Castex, is introducing on-the-spot fines for marijuana possession, partly because of the obvious link between this allegedly ‘soft’ drug and criminal violence. He announced the plan during a visit to Nice, which has recently suffered weeks of drugs-related violence. I only hope his security chiefs have finally spotted the fact that almost all the terrorist killers in France in the past few years (including Mohamed Bouhlel, the atheist petty criminal who was the culprit of the lorry massacre in Nice itself in July 2016) have been marijuana users.