Saturday, 26 January 2019

Magistrates and drugs

Mental illness sharply increases with the unfettered use of marijuana - witness Finland, Denmark and the US.  There has been no examination of the relationships between cannabis use and mental health in the Australian  population.  Incidentally, an alert observer can see that drug laws are almost wholly unenforced in Australian magistrate courts. Thus, the observer can't be criticised for suspecting that when an Australian magistrate sits high on the bench, above the assembled throng in court, she or he may be indeed just that.