cannabisnews.com: Paper: Prince Harry Smoked Pot Paper: Prince Harry Smoked Pot Posted by FoM on January 12, 2002 at 16:03:01 PT Breaking News Source: Reuters Revelations that Britain's Prince Harry, second son of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, has smoked cannabis are a serious matter which has been resolved within the family, royal officials said on Saturday.Under a front-page headline ``Harry's Drugs Shame,'' the News of the World tabloid reported that Charles discovered last year that his son, aged 16 at the time, had smoked cannabis at Charles's Highgrove country estate in western England. ``When Charles confronted Harry ... the boy confessed he had smoked dope on several occasions and drunk to excess at private parties,'' the mass-circulation Sunday paper said in an early edition.Asked about the report, a spokesman for Charles's office at St. James's Palace in London declined to directly confirm or deny whether Harry had smoked ``pot.''``This is a serious matter which was resolved within the family and is now in the past and closed,'' the spokesman told Reuters. He would give no further details.The News of the World said Charles had arranged for his son to visit a drugs and drink rehabilitation clinic in south London to show him how they affect people's lives and persuade him of the error of his ways.Another report, in the Mail on Sunday, said Harry had been involved in a police investigation into after-hours drinking at a pub near Highgrove. Charles's spokesman declined to comment on the report.``Prince Charles is deeply worried about the behavior of his ... son while staying at Highgrove in his father's absence and raised his concerns with Harry's housemaster at Eton (school) during a meeting last week,'' the Mail on Sunday said.The 17-year-old Harry, younger son of Charles and the late Princess Diana, is a student at the exclusive Eton College public school, near Windsor Castle on the outskirts of London.Asked about the Mail on Sunday report, Scotland Yard police headquarters declined to say whether any investigation had been carried out but said the prince's security had not been compromised.``Our (royal) protection officers have not made any reports of security concerns and security has not been compromised,'' a Scotland Yard spokesman told Reuters. Source: ReutersPublished: Saturday, January 12, 2002Copyright 2002 Reuters LimitedRelated Articles:Prince Harry Smoked Marijuana and Drank Alcoholhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11743.shtmlDutch Model for UK Drug Laws http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11624.shtmlMinisters Advised To Legalise Cannabis Cafeshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11379.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #23 posted by FoM on January 13, 2002 at 09:17:24 PT BGreen Haven't found any news today to speak of. The news is flooded with Harry articles. I looked for an article about the girl but haven't found anything yet. I'll keep looking. [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by BGreen on January 13, 2002 at 07:52:06 PT: Here's the Madison, WI newspaper url They seem to be a day behind in the posting of their paper. The Capital Times [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by FoM on January 13, 2002 at 07:23:22 PT Thanks Everyone I understand and will post an article if and when I find one. You've helped me to put my feelings aside. It's a hard area for me. Thanks again. [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by The GCW on January 13, 2002 at 07:16:07 PT BGreen Bulls-eye! It must be printed, allowing documented comment. It must be documented as otherwise there may not be enough of the opposing argument... to reach ears. [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by BGreen on January 13, 2002 at 06:34:25 PT: FoM One of the reasons I quit mainstream journalism is the sick nature of the business. To the newspaper community, kids are nothing but a story. "Good" kids are boring and "bad" kids sell papers.FoM, I respect the fact that you care about hurting people. This girl is going to be forgotten about as time goes by, but she'll always exist in the newspaper morgue. A search for her name (if it's printed) will bring up the same story on C News as well as the originating newspaper. The difference is the reader may get an education from C News. They'll read the opinions of many good people as we cry out in anguish over ANOTHER SENSELESS DEATH.FoM, hundreds of thousands of cannabis smokers have paid a huge price to the strong arm of the law, all in the name of protecting the kids, so when THEY kill kids, WE NEED TO SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS! [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by Lehder on January 13, 2002 at 05:19:42 PT Prince Harry, Princess Jenna I'd like to hear from Prince Harry himself. Does he think that marijuana has harmed him? For that matter, I wonder why we never ever hear from the Bush sisters Jenna and Barbara any more. I wonder if they think marijuana is a dangerous drug? [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by Lehder on January 13, 2002 at 05:15:02 PT "They're killing our children." That's what Barry McCaffrey said about "drug dealers" in an interview broadcast as part of a PBS documentary a few years ago. I've heard enough about how drugs and drug dealers kill children. Parents should know what the government and its lies are doing to their kids. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by potpal on January 13, 2002 at 05:09:54 PT Harry's Fame... Well, at least now we know the boy is 'normal'. I like him more already. Doesn't mean the sucking media will not have a field day with him and every single time they mention his name in the future it will be followed by 'who confessed to smoking marijuana when he was a boy'... Like Jennifer Capriati, labeled for life. Robert Mitchum...Shame, I think not, Fame, most definitely. May the force be with you Harry, Prince of Pot, you'll make a good thoughtful king some day, his Highness, the King of Kannabis. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by Lehder on January 13, 2002 at 05:01:54 PT suicide I have a real problem with posting news about minors.Why? The government has no problem putting minors on trial as adults, jailing them, denying them education, taking them from their parents. Let the truth be known. At least give the facts, even if you feel yo must omit the name to protect the parents from the stigmatization that decades of untruth have unfairly engendered. I would invite the parents to comment on this board and discuss their daughter's persecution with us. They may be naive and confused; they deserve the truth. And the girl herself who was so frustrated with the system that she had to commit suicide should have a voice too. Her friends who smoke pot must also be feeling alone and threatened, terrified. Give them a forum and place to talk too. The newspapers will distort her life and her circumstances and would have the public believe that people kill themselves over a pot pipe when in fact it was the war on drugs and all its hatred and bigotry that murdered her. Post what you have. Let her parents know the truth and let her friends speak on her behalf. The truth can only empower the persecuted and may save the lives of other children in her situation too. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by The GCW on January 13, 2002 at 04:19:38 PT FoM Don't post it. Don't apologise. Everyone here will understand, from what you just said. Plus it will be available on MAP, which may be different. Parhaps someone can post a link the story, and we can talk about it....On a different level: ask her parents if you may post it. This is way out there, but there is good and bad to most eveything.Will it help? We here already know the cannabis and hemp prohibition was the Crime of the Century. [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by CorvallisEric on January 13, 2002 at 01:49:53 PT FoM My feeling is that every casualty is important and needs to be part of the record. An example that particularly needs exposure is the trouble caused by PMA (para-methoxyamphetamine) and other poisons masquerading as ecstasy which have killed several children (and adults) in Orlando, Chicago, and elsewhere. Your point a couple weeks ago about someone searching the internet with the child's name: maybe you could remove names and perhaps other identifying details and replace with something like [name removed for privacy]. I realize better how you feel now that I know how closely this has struck and I appreciate your concern. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by goneposthole on January 12, 2002 at 20:44:19 PT Lies bury truth Truth has become a crime. Lying has taken its place.Do you really feel free?Don't lie. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by FoM on January 12, 2002 at 20:41:03 PT Lehder and everyone I have a real problem with posting news about minors. I am really confused about being ethical. I might think too much about how it might hurt someone but I think of her parents. Is it best not to put a dead child's name here on C News where many can read it? How will posting an article about her death help the Cannabis movement? I hope some of you can advise me on this one. It's very hard for me in cases as sad as this one. Thanks. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by Lehder on January 12, 2002 at 19:54:15 PT exodus I hope that Rainbow and FoM are able to post coverage of the girl who committed suicide following a pot bust. It will, of course, take second billing in our culture to the numerous nude and decapitated bodies found on the same day, but I think the press will not totally ignore the opportunity to admonish us of how another life was tragically lost to the scourge of drugs. The truth is that she was murdered by the "war on drugs, " a life of rehabilitation and persecution too distressing for a young girl to contemplate. She has simply said, "Give me liberty or give me death," and I am very sad in anticipation of fast growing numbers like hers.Add this loss to the thousands of lives diminished or destroyed each day by the war on drugs, and the cumulative result over a few decades becomes national suicide. Always careless about keeping appointments, the barbarians tend to arrive a generation sooner than anybody expects, or six months after the emperor has fled. They accept the invitations of circumstance, and because they depend for their victories on the weakness enthroned within the city walls, it doesn't make much difference whether they come with spears or gatling guns. The empire collapses under the weight of its accumulated folly, its forum empty of politics, its orators as silent as the decorative marble, its principal citizens eager to buy the favor of a future with presents of amethysts and scrolls. --Lewis Lapham Waiting for the BarbariansMore and more I think it's time to leave. I've looked before to Canada and Europe and was frustrated, at my age, at the difficulty of a permanent change. But I'm getting more serious and determined and have begun planning a reconnoitering mission to Europe, though personal and family concerns will delay me for a time. During the cold war, Soviet chess players who managed to escape to the US or to Europe invariably experienced a sudden rise in playing strength: the human spirit needs a little freedom if it's to thrive. If I can escape one day, I'll let you know if freedom works for me and will invite you to my new country, she and I on mutual probation and my suitcase, as always, at the door. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by Rainbow on January 12, 2002 at 19:20:07 PT The sad news Gary Storck mentioned it in an email after reading the paper version of the madison cap Times. It is not online yet and he did not have time to type it in.As soon as i see it i will make it available.I am so saddened and depressed when I read this type of thing. I think it is the second one in a short time.I started reading and learning after the State of Wash told my friend Randy he could get no help. Pot was illegal and the medical benefits were not obvious at the time. At least we did not have this type of news. he was a close friend. he died from a 30-06 head wound.The politicians have more blood on their hands than they know what to do. I do not understand how they can live with themselves. I know I could not live with them.Cheers rainbow [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by Jose Melendez on January 12, 2002 at 18:40:30 PT: Who needs alcohol? Perhaps they will simply admit that cannabis IS treatment! Jose Melendez [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by The GCW on January 12, 2002 at 18:31:16 PT News? Rainbow. I haven't heard news about this. Help make it available. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by E_Johnson on January 12, 2002 at 18:24:18 PT I'm glad I'm not young today Colleges are less affordable than ever before, MTV has taken over youth culture and turned it into a sludge-filled feeding tube for corporate fast food soda and entertainment marketing, urine testing threatens their developing sense of bodily privacy, the recession threatens to keep them under the thumb of Mom and Dad long after graduation, and the whole generation of free sex and drugs boomer parents has morphed into bitter divorced versions of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson who vote to increase drug penalties and want more children to be tried as adults. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by CorvallisEric on January 12, 2002 at 18:17:18 PT Entertainment Yahoo news has Harry under "Entertainment". Lots of yapping on their message board. Yahoo Harry [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on January 12, 2002 at 17:47:36 PT Rainbow That's very sad. A number of years ago my one nephew and a few friends were smoking pot and his one friend got caught with a bag in his locker at school. A few days later his friend called him and ask if he could have his rifle back that he had loaned him and he came to the house and my nephew gave it back to him. He went home and killed himself. The boys were 16. I know how guilty my nephew felt. It is very hard when fear of jail and the shame that society puts upon a person can push someone over the edge. It sure does though. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by E_Johnson on January 12, 2002 at 17:44:19 PT It's his father that needs the weed, truth be told What can you say about a man who took his new bride to Scotland to read philosophy for their honeymoon?And cannabis no doubt would have helped Di with her bulimia, and perhaps could have helped that cutting herself and throwing herself down the stairs thing she did, too.Hope they don't try to cure Harry of being young.The young bear such a burden nowadays, supporting the bulk of our consumer economy and all that. And they're simply not permitted to do the things their parents did when they were young. Like Prince Charles, who went fornicating and intoxicating all over Europe in his randy ladhood. No, Harry has to shoulder the burden of the future of civilization. He can't have any flaws or weaknesses or need to explore anything on his own. His generation has to be corrected and improved and striaghtened and molded from above until they can't move any more. Until they can't think for themselves at all. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Rainbow on January 12, 2002 at 17:35:04 PT anotehr death Folks the worst kind of thing has happenned again. The waste of prohibition has taken another innocent life. A girl in Wisconsin got busted for a pot pipe. She went home and shot herself. yes the bushies are probably really proud of themselves along with the asses, asscrofts, and walters.I am sad Tom [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by null on January 12, 2002 at 16:39:39 PT bitter medicine it's a shame for the rest of the people in the U.K. that he didnt' get caught and thrown in the slammer!! Then maybe daddy and the rest of those jerks would get a taste of their seriously misguided laws. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment