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High Profile UK VC Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction

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Re: High Profile UK VC Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction

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From the article: debilitating addiction to cannabis Medically, this makes no sense.

There is such a thing as addiction to marijuana. He may or may not have it, and it may or may not have something to do with his actions here, but it does exist. Some people in the comments at that link are trying to make a distinction between "physically" and "psychologically" addictive. This is a common belief, but medically, there are no such distinctions. Addiction is defined as continued use despite consequences,…

Medically this is untrue. You need to understand the actual definition of "addiction" before making statements like this.

Re: High Profile UK VC Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction

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I don't know. I'd like to hear his side of the story. The news reports [1] are kinda vague: "Mr Glaenzer was standing unnecessarily close to one female, looking down at her back," said prosecutor He got off the train at Bond Street and travelled back to Oxford Circus, all the while standing behind women on the train and platforms. On a second trip to Bond Street, Glaenzer was seen by plain clothes officers standing c…

No, standing close is not qualifying for sex offender. It's the "problematic" bit that makes him a sex offender. The fact that you suggest otherwise is rather disingenous. And given that he pleaded guilty what else of his story do you need to hear? Can we please stop making excuses for sexual assault?

> And given that he pleaded guilty what else of his story do you need to hear?

I agree with the rest of what you say, but in general it's rather dangerous to assume that somebody pleading guilty to a crime necessarily means they did something wrong.

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