Pubdate: Sat, 24 May 2003
Source: Evening News (UK)
Copyright: 2003 Archant Regional
Contact:  http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/141
Author: Tara Daines

A LACK OF LOGIC IN OUR LAWS ON DRUGS

I WOULD like to join in the debate between June Rose (Evening News, April 
20) and Alun Buffry of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (Evening News, May 8).

People who smoke cannabis as "joints" are not being harmed by the cannabis 
but by the tobacco, the most addictive of all drugs.

Yet still it is legal; to smoke tobacco and illegal to smoke cannabis.

Alcohol is legal and yet it is well known that persistent drinking harms 
the liver, leads to sclerosis and early death.

And just as there is a small number of people who have severe reactions to 
cannabis, there are those who react badly to alcohol. Some people have an 
extreme reaction to peanuts.

It puzzles me that alcohol is sold without even a health warning on the bottle.

Pure cannabis smoked through water or ice as is done in the Middle Eastern 
countries is the least harmful way.  But cannabis users are forbidden by 
law to do this.

It's acceptable to get together in the pub and drink any amount of alcohol 
but it is illegal for friends to gather in a home and smoke or enjoy 
cannabis together.

Surely there is some lack of logic in our present drug laws, not to mention 
injustice.

Tara Daines

Meron Road

Norwich
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