Talking About Cannabis – Made of Fail

Well, we gave her a chance but it seems like Debra Bell is set to continue talking bollocks about cannabis. Her daft website has been updated and it seems her Parental Action Group is going ahead at full steam … which actually probably isn’t very fast since it’s been the first update in two months.

Debra doesn’t like to work too hard.

We’ve noticed some changes to the site. The link to scientology loons Narconon has disappeared and at the bottom of the page Debra tells us: Talking About Cannabis has no affiliation to any political party, religious organisation or sect.

Which is strange given that the patron of the group is Baroness Anelay of St Johns, the Tory Chief Whip and of the four MPs listed as official advisers they all happen to be Tories.

The good news is that list of advisers appears to have dramatically shrunk. Deborah Cameron and Richard McKendrick of drugs charity Addaction appear to have mysteriously disappeared. Which is a shame for poor old Debra because they were the one organisation who gave her any credibility.

We’ve been in touch with Addaction several times to ask what they are doing supporting a lying misfit and it seems they’ve finally realised just exactly what this group is. A self-promotion vehicle for Debra Bell who give distorted and hysterical information on cannabis and ignore any scientific facts which don’t back up her dubious claims.

Debra now includes a picture of herself on the front page, just so you know for sure that this is really all about HER.

Back to the list and the other missing persons appear to be the National Drugs Prevention Alliance, the senile old giffers who’ve been the mainstay of the UK prohibitionist movement for donkeys years.

One of them David Rayne is still featured on her front page however giving his distorted views on the recent ACMD review into cannabis. You might remember our David, he’s the former Customs Officer who resigned in disgrace after being accused of illegality and incompetance by a High Court Judge. David Rayne – made of fail.

Another bloke on her list who’s made of fail is Dr Ian Oliver. This muppet is an ex-cop who also resigned in disgrace after screwing up an enquiry into the murder of a child.

Also present and definitely made of fail are the Maranatha Community which kinda shatters their argument that they don’t have a link to a religious organisation.

The Maranatha Community are a bunch of fundie Christians who been accused of acting as a cult in the US. In the UK they’re more likely to be found actively promoting extreme homophobia and we’ll have a run down on them soon. In the meantime here’s a taster of their dodgy prejudice:

“Some of the media and much of the gay movement portray the LGB lifestyle as happy, healthy and fulfilled. However, the LGB lifestyle is associated with very high rates of sexual promiscuity, and a large number of very serious physical and emotional health consequences. It shows an unacceptable lack of compassion for individual people, and an unacceptably cavalier attitude to public health, to attempt to portray as normal or desirable, to encourage, or to seek to promote or facilitate in any way, LGB lifestyles.”

Dr. Hans-Christian Raabe is also listed as an advisor to Talking About Cannabis and is an active member of the Maranatha loons.

Back to Debra, they are planning to set up a Helpline which we are planning to have hours of fun with. More worryingly they are still wittering on about setting up Treatment Centres. Debra has no clinical experience, no counselling qualification and seems to think crystals are a legitimate form of treatment.

We reckon Debra thinks this will be a nice little earner and they’re still begging for donations on the site and claiming to have applied to become a charity. Which is funny because up until recently they were claiming to be a charity already!

And if they are successful in this application then we suppose that we’ll have to get back onto our mates at the Charity Commission and ask what they are doing giving recognition to an organisation that is clearly political in nature, a breach of Charity Law. In the meantime we’ll look forward to their first set of accounts which we’ll be scrutinizing very carefully.