Is Harry glamorising drugs? | Valentine Low

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Is Harry glamorising drugs? | Valentine Low



Actually what Harry said was rather concerning because he's saying that taking these drugs, he took it to help him cope and it did help him cope. Will a strange son Harry turn up for his father Charles' big day? Will Harry bring along his wife? And if he does, will it all kick off? There's even a comic plot line about not being able to find a band. Valentine Lois at times is a royal correspondent and joins us this morning. Morning Valentine. Good morning Stig. Will Charles be saying to him get out of my palace? It's not impossible. Is this story as advertised, Val, because it does feel that they should just get a grip on this either way because who's interested for this to become such a soap opera? I think it's certainly not in the palace's interest that their desperate pritchards go away for it all to quieten down.

Harry and Meghan, I think they're pretty self-absorbed. They can't make up their mind. They don't know whether to come. Obviously it would send an awful message. If they didn't come, it looked like he was rejecting the monarchy, completely rejecting his father, even more than he has done already. But if they do come, will it dominate the news agenda while they're here? Will people like me be just talking about them all the time rather than the king? And remember the Queen's platinum jubilee? There's that service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral and we all watched with eyes on stalks as Harry and Meghan came down by themselves. They had the dignity of that and then sat in a pew a couple of rows behind William and Kate.

So will there be that cronlinology about where are they sitting? Down if they do, down if they don't. And I suspect they will do it, won't they? Because it seems like the downside is rather greater for not doing it. I kind of agree with you. I think he'll certainly come. It's possible she might not. There are excuses she could offer, you know, having to look after the kids. It's Arch's birthday, 10th, 4th on the day of the coronation.

There are reasons why she might not come. I suspect at the very least he will. And what's he been saying? I mean, it's hard to keep up today with some of these things, but he's been talking to a trauma specialist. What did you take from that? It was more psycho-babbled from Harry, wasn't it? Finding his true authentic self. He also talked about, you know, how he came from a broken home and how there weren't enough hugs. You know, Diana was a big hugger. I can completely see that Charles was not the hugging kind of parent.

He also talked about drugs, didn't he? He talked about cocaine, didn't do much for him. Marijuana, that helped him definitely. And he also spoke warmly about his experiences with this South American plant, ayahuasca, if I pronounced it correctly. He's done nothing. Yeah, well done. And, you know, for Harry, that's, it's kind of a difficult Harry that because he's just being honest. It's like the Taliban thing, you know, when he talks about the drugs, he's been, so he's been frank.

Harry doesn't have a filter. So he talks about these drugs, he's been frank, he's been honest, he's been open. But, you know, I spoke to a drug campaigner yesterday, a woman called Fiona Spargo-Mabs, who's fantastic at the sort of force of nature. She's just been appointed OBE for services to young people. And her son died of MDMA, of Sturkey MDMA at a rave as a teenager. And she made the point that actually what Harry said was rather concerning, because he's saying that taking these drugs, he took it to help him cope, and it did help him cope. And it's a bad message, because a lot of people who try drugs for the first time are doing it to help them cope with life's problems.

And, you know, and there are better way to help to deal with life's problems. And the people who do it as a coping strategy, they're the ones that is very interesting. They're more likely to become addicted than anyone else. Well, that's it. And we've got David Nutt, who's the former chief advisor on drugs to the government on the programme after 9.30, Valen. I think he'll be able to take up his view on exactly that.

So, really interesting story you wrote about that in the paper today. Good to speak to you, Valen, thank you for joining us. Thank you. That's Valen Lowe, they're the Times's real correspondent, who really has become a bit of a Harry correspondent.



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