His drug use led him into a life of petty crime, filled with several periods in prison. He attributes much of what happened to him to cannabis use.
‘I started smoking cannabis because I was desperately unhappy at school. I had a fantastic upbringing, and had great parents, but I was separated from all my friends when I went to secondary school, which made me lonely. Because I was going through puberty, I became even more depressed and had very little self-confidence.
‘Then I started hanging...
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