Pubdate: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 Source: Edinburgh Evening News (UK) Contact: 2002 The Scotsman Publications Ltd Website: http://www.edinburghnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1626 Author: Withheld Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1283/a05.html DON'T BE LED TO BELIEVE CANNABIS IS A SOFT DRUG I READ the comments on David Blunkett's plan to downgrade cannabis to class C (News, July 10) - and I used to think he was a clever man. Don't you believe for one moment that cannabis is soft. I have never tried it myself, but am losing a once-cheerful, loving, laughing son, who is a cannabis addict. Don't be fooled into believing it's not addictive, it causes all kinds of problems and disorders . My son is paranoid, argumentative and has lost his lovely personality. Most of all we have lost him - he spends all his days smoking this dangerous weed. He has a permanent severe rasping cough and worst of all, he is incoherent and just "gone" after a smoke. I have lost a son to cannabis . Name and address supplied - --- MAP posted-by: Doc-Hawk