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Topic History of: Drugs and false accusations - a clear link.
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zooloo	Pete Clarke wrote: One hell of a counter argument for the lawyers there Zoo! ...sorry to hijack the thread a bit, but that's one of the problems with our legal system. For a parent it is much more reassuring that someone becomes dependent on drugs due to some awful incident and not more or less at random. So a parent on a jury, through no fault of their own, will be receptive to certain ideas. The barrister can (Will?) use deliberately emotive terms to "win" the case. A defendant accused of an offence that provokes emotive reactions is at a disadvantage. (I wonder if I'm libelling barristers... that wouldn't be a good idea)
Pete Clarke	One hell of a counter argument for the lawyers there Zoo!
Pete Clarke	Oh dear.... Just got back from Paris via the Eurostar. I smoked a HUGE boombatty just before I got on the train, but strangely, I was not compelled to lie to the stewardess when she asked me what I would like to drink... I told her straight up... "Hit me with a diet coke, and a packet of jumbo cashew nuts please!"
zooloo	JK2006 wrote: With the CANNABIS issue returning to the headlines can I make it clear... I'm not saying cannabis (or any other drug from alcohol to nicotine to heroin) always or even often provokes lies. But I am saying it CAN do so and the legal argument ("the abuse caused the addiction") is spurious. It doesn't matter why somebody behaves in a certain way (for legal purposes as opposed to psychiatric ones)... it is whether they are reliable witnesses and often addicts have very strong reasons to lie or exaggerate. I'm not saying being buggered by a devious and manipulative monster always drives somebody to drug misuse (It's not abuse BTW). But I am saying, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it CAN do so.
JK2006	With the CANNABIS issue returning to the headlines can I make it clear... I'm not saying cannabis (or any other drug from alcohol to nicotine to heroin) always or even often provokes lies. But I am saying it CAN do so and the legal argument ("the abuse caused the addiction") is spurious. It doesn't matter why somebody behaves in a certain way (for legal purposes as opposed to psychiatric ones)... it is whether they are reliable witnesses and often addicts have very strong reasons to lie or exaggerate.