Good Advice from a Dope Lobbyist

Some Good Advice from Jayelle Farmer on a US site called  'Legalise Cannabis International', posted today:

"How to Correctly Answer Hitchens and Other Prohibitionists
We need to remember that we are campaigners for legalisation, not campaigners against people's opinions. It is not our job to become embroiled in personality contests with prohibitionists - or anyone else for that matter. The person who does so is simply displaying the fact that they are too bound up in themselves to be effective as a campaigner. Yes, we can take that personal avenue if we so choose, but we will not be effective workers in our campaign for cannabis legalisation if we do."

Ms Farmer ( who sounds as if she might be a Canadian, so polite and reasonable) also kindly says that I am 'very good at making the point that prohibitionists are not necessarily stupid people'.

Thank you.

She also adds :'We know that this guy can make us crazy *if we allow him to* (this bit is in CAPITAL LETTERS in the original, but we don't use those here) .

And offers lots of other good advice for the conduct of civilised debate. It's nice to know that I am facing co-ordinated, coherent and organised opposition,  which suggests that I am doing some good. It is also good to see it in plain view. I commend the posting (easily found at 'Legalise Cannabis International, and 'Peter Hitchens' 'UK Media Cannabis prohibitionist') .

I just wish they'd use a better picture of me (I'm sure I can supply one if asked), and that any American could ever understand that the Mail on Sunday is a separate newspaper from the Daily Mail.