The article below sounds like fiction. Is there any independent
corroboration
of the facts?
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> "5trfg6h7"
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>"Dr John Watson" <drjohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/03/do0307.xml
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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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