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Given the worthlessness of American reportage/legacy media, I have been watching Firstpost/Vantage out of India. The reportage is sharp and on point and about as objective as one might hope for. For example, they consider Hamas a terrorist organization but do express sympathy for the Gazan population caught up in the fighting. One of their reporters commented , “Hamas considers the Gazan population human shields, the Israelis consider them collateral damage”.

Cannabis poses a greater threat to health than tobacco, lung experts have warned. The warning comes on the day that Home Secretary David Blunkett is due to make a Commons statement about the future of government drug policy. Many young people are simply not aware that smoking cannabis may put them at increased risk of respiratory cancers and infections . Dame Helena Shovelton: The Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended that cannabis is downgraded from a class B drug to class C. This would mean that possession would lead to a caution, rather than arrest. The British Lung Foundation is...