UK picks up Hearst Yellow Journalisim Legacy

A judge issued a warning about what he believes to be a clear link
between cannabis and crime when jailing a drug user.

Judge Anthony Niblett told an arsonist who had set fire to his former
girlfriend's house while under the influence of the drug: "Those whose
minds are steeped in cannabis are capable of quite extraordinary
criminality."

Sentencing Peter West, 33, a habitual drug user, at Hove Crown Court,
East Sussex, he added: "Your brain has been steeped in cannabis for
most of your adult life."

He described West as a danger to the public after hearing how the
blaze gutted the three-bedroom house in Partridge Green, West Sussex,
and left his girlfriend and her two young children with just the
clothes they stood in. He had set light to her house in a rage fuelled
by cannabis and vodka, the court was told.

West, from Cowfold, West Sussex, was a heavy cannabis smoker and also
used heroin, cocaine and crack. Lisa Williams, his former partner,
told police that West had become increasingly moody and aggressive in
the weeks before the attack. On the night of the arson he suddenly
punched her and said he was going to burn down the house with all of
them inside.

Miss Williams fled with her children. West set the house alight,
leading to their neighbours being evacuated.

West admitted assault and arson. Jailing him for life, the judge said
West must serve a minimum of two-and-a-half-years before being
considered for parole. However, he will remain under licence for life.

The judge criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for not charging
West with the more serious offence of arson being reckless as to
whether life was endangered.

In March this year the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, asked the
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to re-examine the dangers of
cannabis. He acted after researchers in Holland said using it
"moderately increases" the risk of psychotic symptoms among the young.

The latest research follows increasing concerns about the downgrading
of the drug. Health campaigners claim that there is growing evidence
that cannabis is more damaging to mental health than was previously
thought.

gives abad name to weed.

It keeps talking about weed, when it clearly stated he was a junkie.. stupid fuckin' journalists!

Also note it was "cannabis and Vodka" but the crime in the eyes of the judge was stated as because his mind was steeped in cannabis. Vodka would never produce violent episodes.
Yellow Journalism is a type of journalism devised by a man named William Randolph Hearst. He owns most of the reading material today and single handedly spread racism and the word "marijuana" to the world. His crusade against the weed, Mexicans and blacks in America, which continues today in his magazines, is founded in 1890's when Poncho Villa took back lands Hearst companyâ??s corruption had stolen from the Mexicans.

Fuck, what a prick, i hope he gets shot:p

That article was whack yo!

:D:D

The yellow part is the effort on the mass media to call key words as many times as they can to correlate in searches â??cannabis=mental instabilityâ?�. It does not matter that it has no fundamental basis. A lie as long as repeated often enough it is valid on its own repetition. I think that is a standard propaganda technique. As long as mass media adopts this, fringe news like we get will not penetrate the minds of the masses. As you may note, mum and her friends are not here, they read that shite.