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Prince Harry Slammed for Glorifying Drug Use and Victimhood
The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, is being chastised for praising the benefits of drug use. During a live-streamed interview, Prince Harry stated that cannabis “really helped” with mental health issues related to his mother’s death.
Harry also extolled the “positive” effects of Ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug. Harry claimed that it helped him relax and feel lighter for a while.
According to the Daily Mail, Prince Harry spoke with Canadian therapist Dr. Gabor Mate, a supporter of drug decriminalization who has allegedly used ayahuasca to treat patients suffering from mental illness.
Cocaine, according to Harry, “didn’t do anything for me.”
The comments were “concerning,” according to Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, who founded a drugs education charity in her son Daniel’s name after he died of an accidental MDMA overdose at 16.
“Our work is with under-18s, and our concern is that this could send a message to young people that drugs will help them with really difficult things,” she said.
As a TV presenter, Kirstie Allsopp also chastised Prince Harry, tweeting: “If you have a vast platform, you don’t mouth off about using illegal drugs, the trade that kills people.”
A royal biographer says Prince Harry is “only interested in promoting himself and Meghan” following another televised interview. The Duke of Sussex participated in a Q&A session with physician and trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, who diagnosed Prince Harry with ADD, PTSD, and other disorders on the spot.
The session in which Harry opened up about his use of drugs, including psychedelics, cocaine, and marijuana, was deemed “reckless” by Tom Bower, author of Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors.
“I thought it was pretty cringe-worthy. “It was so self-indulgent, anguish, money-making, and, of course, his promotion that drugs helped him, even the most dangerous drugs, psychedelic drugs,” the royal biographer opined.
“I think he’s dim, I think he’s self-interested, and I think he’s pretty dangerous,” he said. But, in the end, it all comes down to money.”
During the Q&A, Prince Harry stated that he received no benefit from cocaine but praised psychedelics and marijuana, which are legal for adults to consume in California. He stated that cannabis “really helped” him.
“The first one you mentioned [cocaine] didn’t do anything for me; it was more of a social thing. It gave me a sense of belonging and probably made me feel different than I was,” Harry explained. “Marijuana is different; it helped me.”
“I think what it shows is what a grubby life he is now leading in the sense that he is only interested in promoting himself and, of course, Meghan and getting money out of being a member of the Royal Family,” Tom Bower told GB News.
“[He is] not being responsible for what he is saying anymore or the damage he is causing to his family and Britain. Unfortunately, the damage is extensive. Every time he appears, Britain’s reputation suffers a little more.”
Mr. Bower added that he believed that the idea the Sussexes should come to Britain for the Coronation was “quite repellent”.
A spokesperson for Meghan and Harry confirmed that the Sussexes had been invited to the Coronation, but it is unknown whether the couple will attend.
The interview over the weekend was the most recent in a series of media appearances by the Duke of Sussex before and after the publication of his memoir Spare.
The Prince opens up about the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in the book, which became an instant best-seller, and leveled a series of accusations at the Royal Family.
Royal observers are now waiting to see if he and his wife, Meghan Markle, will attend King Charles III’s Coronation on May 6 this year.
Chris Rock Mocks Prince Harry and Meghan
In his new Netflix special, comedian Chris Rock satirizes Meghan Markle’s race claim, aiming at comments the Duchess of Sussex made during her interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which she accused an unnamed member of the Royal Family of racism and stated that she felt isolated within the royal household.
The comedian ruthlessly mocked Meghan’s claim, suggesting she was dealing with “some in-law s***” while noting that she won the “light-skinned lottery”.
In addition, Rock stated that “even black people want to know how brown” her child would be in a brutal takedown.
Meghan became the punchline to the US comedian’s jokes about victimhood.
“Like, who exactly is Meghan Markle? “She seems like a nice lady, just complaining,” he started. “Like, didn’t she win the lottery for fair skin?”
Last year, Rock went all in on Meghan’s now-famous interview with Oprah.
“‘They’re so racist, they’re so racist,” says one. “Some of that s*** she went through was not racism,” Rock mocked the Duchess. It was just some in-law nonsense.
“Sometimes it’s just some in-law nonsense because she’s complaining, and I’m like, ‘What the f*** is she talking about?'”
“‘Oprah, they’re so racist they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be,” the SNL comedian continued, mocking Meghan once more. “I’m like, ‘That’s not racist; even black people want to know how brown the baby will be.'”
During an interview with journalist Tom Bradby in January, Prince Harry denied Meghan accused him of racism.
When asked about his wife’s comments to Oprah in March 2021, the duke replied, “Yeah, there were concerns about his skin color.”
Asked whether he would not describe that as “essentially racist”, Harry said: “I wouldn’t. Not having grown up in that family.
“Returning to what my understanding is, based on my own experience, the difference between racism and unconscious bias – the two things are different.”
Asked by Oprah about whether she believed the Royal Family allegedly hadn’t wanted their son Archie to be a prince “because of his race”, Meghan replied: “But I can give you an honest answer.
“In those months when I was pregnant … we have in tandem the conversation of, ‘He won’t be given security. He will not be given a title, and there will be concerns and discussions about how dark his skin will be when he is born.”
The Duchess told a stunned Oprah that “there were several conversations about it,” but she would not reveal who made the remarks because “I think that would be very damaging to them.”
“That was relayed to me from Harry,” she added when pressed further. Those were conversations he had with his family… It was extremely difficult to see those as separate conversations.”
When Oprah asked if the question about Archie’s skin color was raised “because they were concerned that if he was too brown, that would be a problem,” “I wasn’t able to follow up with why, but that — if that’s the assumption you’re making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one,” Meghan explained.
Rock’s takedown comes after Harry and Meghan were spoofed in the latest season of South Park, which followed a “prince and princess of Canada” as they embarked on a “Worldwide Privacy Tour”.