Judge condemns calls to decriminalise cannabis after the drug ’caused and exacerbated’ mental health issues of man who killed his own mother, 73
Judge Steven Everett warned cannabis was a ‘terrible’ substance as he sentenced Simon Carter, 50, for killing his widowed mother Gwyneth at her home in Macclesfield, Cheshire on July 16, 2025.
A judge has condemned calls to legalise cannabis after a son killed his estranged mother during a severe mental health episode when he developed paranoid schizophrenia following his habitual smoking …