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The story about the cannabis industry’s next “war”, made me think about a subject that’s created a lot of fuss in France recently: the murder of Sarah Halimi in 2017. Halimi, a woman in her sixties, was savagely beaten and thrown from the window of her third-floor apartment by a neighbour, who was a petty criminal and drug dealer. The assailant was judged by experts to be such a long-term heavy consumer of cannabis, in ever stronger concentrations, that he had become medically schizophrenic, and was seeing visions of the Devil everywhere. Just this last week, France’s highest criminal court decided that he was, as they would say in England “unfit to plead,” so there will be no trial. His heavy use of cannabis had made him not responsible for his actions. This decision evoked a lot of protest because it was pointed out, quite reasonably, that it was the killer’s own decision to consume ever more cannabis in the first place. (If he had been under the influence of alcoho