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The Silent Killer in the Shadows: How Prohibition Claimed a Seven-Year-Old’s Life

When I heard about seven-year-old Archie York’s death in a cannabis lab explosion in Newcastle, my first reaction wasn’t the expected outrage at the “drug dealer” responsible. Instead, I felt a familiar, sickening realization: this child’s death wasn’t just a tragedy—it was entirely preventable. Archie didn’t die because cannabis exists; he died because cannabis prohibition forced production underground, into amateur hands, in residential buildings, without safety standards or oversight.

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