The slow disintegration of our society has already seen the internet open up a gateway into suicide sites on Instagram and sexualized content on tap.
Now a cross-party group of MPs wants this country to copy Canada in making cannabis available on the high street for recreational use.
Blair Gibbs, a key supporter, has also been brought into No10 by Boris Johnson .
As if parents don’t have enough to contend with trying to protect their kids from knife crime, robbery, bullying and the slow descent into wanting to become a reality TV star.
Now this. Let’s not beat about the bush. Cannabis is a gateway drug.
When, eventually, the high is not enough users move on to stronger drugs, Class As – the kind of thing that can cost them their lives.
Eighteen-year-old Leah Betts never regained consciousness from a coma after taking a tab of ecstasy.
Leah Heyes, Megan Bell and Carson Price all lost their lives after dabbling with MDMA.
As parents you warn your kids about the side effects of supposedly harmless drugs like cannabis – anxiety attacks, hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia, insomnia and depression.
There are enough real stories of wrecked mental health and families torn apart to override any suggestions we are worrying over nothing.
It is fantasy to suggest legalising cannabis would take the market away from crime gangs. Or reduce the violence that has ravaged our towns and cities.
In Canada, 79% of drug users still head to their dealers for their powerful, potent Class Bs.
So much for legalisation blowing a hole in the market.
Advocates point to Uruguay and Holland, where cannabis is legal, countries with very different cultures to ours here in the UK.
Yes, some people say legalisation will help combat the racist way police target black cannabis users.
But surely the solution is a review of policing, not subjecting more families to years of worry, anxiety and heartbreak.
