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Boasts of cannabis zealot who forced anti-drugs JP to quit: Campaigner who made complaint says drug is 'safer than peanuts'
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By Nazia Parveen
PUBLISHED: 00:03, 26 June 2013

With reader comments

  • Peter Reynolds was one of four to complain about JP Yvonne Davies
  • Cannabis claimed the life of her brother at the age of just 39
  • Mr Reynolds accused the 65-year-old of scaremongering
A campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis has boasted of his role in forcing a magistrate to resign. Peter Reynolds made one of four official complaints about Yvonne Davies, who had highlighted the dangers of the drug when sentencing a dealer. Judicial officials upheld the complaints – a decision that eventually cost the 65-year-old great grandmother her job on the bench. Cannabis claimed the life of her brother at just 39.

But Mr Reynolds, who has smoked cannabis since turning 14, claimed the magistrate had been scaremongering and the drug was safer than peanuts. ‘She was spreading scare stories about cannabis which are wholly unacceptable,’ he said. ‘There are only small risks with cannabis – it is nowhere near as bad as alcohol. ‘She made the right decision to resign and she has been brought to her senses because she was in an impossible position – she could not dispense justice fairly with such strong views against cannabis.’

Mrs Davies had issued a heartfelt plea to a cannabis grower to mend his ways, describing the devastating case of her brother. She said she had told of her family’s ordeal ‘hundreds of times’ during her 14 years on the bench. However, she was officially reprimanded by the Office for Judicial Complaints and said she felt her position became untenable following a ‘back-to-work’ interview in which she was repeatedly asked to resign by senior colleagues.
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I still like the statistic that says even in countries where rates of cannabis use has increased massively over the past 50 years rates of schizophrenia have remained the same.
 
For as much as schizophrenia is genetically determined, countries with generous mental health care may have more schizophrenics simply because more couples meet in mental hospitals. We certainly see a lot of relationships originate in rehab.
 
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