"Dr John Watson" <drjohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Dr John Watson
> Baker Street
Quoting:
> Our eldest son, Will, once a highly academic, s****ty, handsome, smiling
young
> boy, began smoking cannabis at school with friends. He was fourteen. He
soon
> began to change into someone we scarcely recognised, who stole to fund
the
> habit that began to consume him.
Oh yes, the old 'Demotivational Syndrome'. He should be growing his own.
> Pleas from us to stop were met with a shrug
> and the comments ‘the government wouldn’t have downgraded it if it
wasn’t safe
> to smoke’. With predictions of nine excellent p***** at GCSE, we could
never
> have foreseen that our son would follow a route of drug abuse and
destructive
> behaviour that would bring our family to breaking point.
>
> William is now twenty, and we haven’t seen him for five months.
What a surprise.
> We had to ask him to leave our home,
Oh, I see, so that is why she hasn't seen him in five months
- because she told him to leave home.
Perhaps if she had shown some intelligence and understanding,
she could have worked around it.
How about taking some personal responsibility for your own
actions, Debra Bell, and not blame everything on cannabis?
> in order to protect the well-being of our other
> two sons, who are now 17 and 14. Unable to find sup****t for our son or
> our family, I began writing a diary last year,
> which I published on a website
No, nothing egocentric about that...
I guess she couldn't have the perfect family, so
she told her son to leave home and now she
complains that she hasn't seen him for months.
Must be the cannabis that makes her so unwilling
to take responsibility for her own actions.
> I set up, in the hope that it might be of comfort to other families
> who I knew must be suffering just as we were. This was a hidden
> problem on which I wanted to shed light. After extracts from the
> diaries were published in the national press, I received hundreds
> of emails from families, all saying that our story was theirs too.
> Shortly afterwards the action group of which I am Chair was
> born, comprised of parents of cannabis-damaged children. We
> invite Gordon Brown to be true to his word and make sure that
> cannabis is reclassified to a Class B drug as soon as possible so
> that the next generation will not be let down in the same way
> that this one has. Reclassification is just a beginning, a massive,
> effective public health campaign extending to schools and
> colleges should swiftly follow.
She means a campaign of misinformation and lies.
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