Rambling along 12

Early editions had the wrong photo - sorry. The editor

Imagine stepping into a room, vast like the concourse of a major, yet mythical, railway terminal, which is full of papers swirling and falling, flying and drifting – as if bewitched by an invisible wind. Imagine the sunlight streaming in through windows so high that they seem like dreams. What would you do? Shut the door I guess, just in case it was oneself that had caused the draught and set a thousand carefully stacked papers randomly cascading. Either that, or grab a handful and with the blessing of the Head Archivist  -whose job it is to tame the Turbulent Chambers as they are now known – set off on a long ramble homewards as the autumn infiltrates. And as I ramble along I’ll read a few of these tumbling missives that come from An Archive Past. Oh, and stick some photos of a recent walk in London Town. This is what is happening at the moment here on Bitsnbobs, and which has been previously explained here.

According to my early morning read of today’s Guardian newspaper, and I assume they are not making this up – “Adolescents who are regular users of cannabis are at risk of permanent damage to their intelligence, attention span and memory, according to the results of research covering nearly four decades.”

This is presented as news.

The article goes on to state – “"This work took an amazing scientific effort," said Professor Terrie Moffitt of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, one of the authors.”

Professor Moffitt needs to get out more often.

I could have saved him forty years of work.

Later he asserts - "It's such a special study that I'm fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for under-18 brains."

Oooooh! And he’s a professor?

Let’s have a look at that assertion  - take out the word cannabis and substitute some of these words; alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, television, video games, horror movies, mobile phones, internet, space mountain at Disney Land, religion…..”

Falling in love, however, is risky for all ages.