stoned

"I was a little bit nervous... Are they going to start thinking you come to work stoned?" said Jon, one of an estimated tens of thousands of people in the UK with private cannabis prescriptions.

But it wasn’t like everyone was stoned all the time.

It was an act of considerable courage in an era when abolitionist speakers were frequently stoned, beaten and sometimes murdered for their beliefs.

The first Sunday service after the arrests, streamed from pastors outside the mainland, included a meditation on the biblical account of Stephen, the first-century disciple stoned to death for his faith.

Jacob had sent a text to a friend minutes before the collision, which stated: "My driver is stoned. Lovely".