Paul O'Grady Quotes
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.
O'Grady, Paul. At My Mother's Knee... and Other Low Joints. Bantam Press, 2008, p. 28.
The judge, at the time was only summarizing the science evidence for the physiological safety of the drug in its natural grown state at that time. Unfortunately drug dealers have learned to extract the active ingredient, THC, and produce marijuana, much more potent than the 1988 variety. Nor did the judge address the behavioral consequence of extensive marijuana use where we know now that some people who get into extensive marijuana smoking tend to have negative consequences for ability to study, concentrate on operating machinery, develop a personal relationship and the like. The extent to which The more potent marijuana represents a physiological health risk ( as opposed to psychological) however is not as well known for lack of research of what the effects are because the government has refused to allow marijuana to be used in experiments nor have they funded any of their own studies. As of 2011 there has been no study that demonstrates serious physiological harm.
Paul James O'Grady MBE, is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer, radio host, producer, and former drag queen. He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag queen persona Lily Savage, with which he went mainstream in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, most notably The Paul O'Grady Show (2004–2009, 2013–2015).
