I noticed this article last weekend in the Sunday Times as i’m staying with elderly parents in the UK who in the main don’t actually read the Murdoch rag but just use it for crossword entertainment.
The first thing i have to say here is that being a Murdoch outlet i can’t give you the full article synopsis because their whole world is behind a paywall.
I did a little extra simple googling and found that Ms Agnew based out of the east coast (USA) has record with this type of article, something highlighted recently by a couple of people on the Linked in network
Initially this is the current story with a suitably garish murdochian headline grab.
I know cannabis isn’t safe: it made me stab my friend to death
When Bryn Spejcher watched the police bodycam footage, she did not recognise the woman she saw.
The 33-year-old saw herself, deranged and frenzied, stabbing her body and then her service dog, Arya, the police having to taser her four times and beating her nine times with a baton — breaking her arm — to make her stop. Then she saw her friend, Chad O’Melia, stabbed 108 times in his home in Thousand Oaks, northwest of Los Angeles, where the two had been hanging out and smoking weed. She had killed him.
“It’s still hard to believe something like this actually happened,” Spejcher said. “I am not a violent person. I would never harm anybody. And I’ve had to learn how to manage those feelings of
A woman in California who became a killer while gripped by psychosis says companies selling the drug legally are hiding the truth about its effects
When Bryn Spejcher watched the police bodycam footage, she did not recognise the woman she saw.
The 33-year-old saw herself, deranged and frenzied, stabbing her body and then her service dog, Arya, the police having to taser her four times and beating her nine times with a baton — breaking her arm — to make her stop. Then she saw her friend, Chad O’Melia, stabbed 108 times in his home in Thousand Oaks, northwest of Los Angeles, where the two had been hanging out and smoking weed. She had killed him.
I know cannabis isn’t safe: it made me stab my friend to death
Ms Agnew has form with this approach
A) We Have
Cannabis psychosis: How super-powered skunk blew our minds
Cannabis is far stronger than it used to be, and psychosis rates are soaring. What’s causing some cannabis users to develop mental health issues, and how can they be treated?
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Guest: Megan Agnew, commissioning editor, The Sunday Times Magazine
Host: Calum Macdonald.
Clips: Howard Stern show, ITV, Channel 4 News.
B) We Have
Cannabis is far stronger than it used to be and psychosis rates are soaring. Megan Agnew meets former smokers — and the medics helping them to recover.
Cannabis-Clinic-The-Sunday-Times-Magazine
C) CLEAR Founder Peter Reynolds on an interview experience with Agnew
Ms Agnew interviewed me at length several months before her piece was published and I dare say she spoke to other people on the reform side of the debate as well. Certainly not one word of what I said made it into print. It might as well be a paid-for advertorial for Marta di Forti and Robin Murray’s work.
