Dopes who want to legalise cannabis
I HOPE the MPs Sir Norman Lamb, Jonathan Djanogly and David Lammy, who toured a cannabis factory (Mail), will also visit a psychiatric hospital to get the full picture of drug use before they consider legalisation. Cannabis can lead to lifelong depression and mental health issues. A former friend, an Oxbridge graduate, is sectioned in a mental hospital, having lost his business, home and relationship to cannabis. This is not a harmless drug — I have yet to meet a single person who has been improved in any way by taking it. At the very least users quickly become flaky, lazy and self-centred. I find it extraordinary that we are terrified of dementia in old age, but so many people are seemingly happy to risk their lifelong brain function and mental health by taking recreational drugs with scarcely a second thought. Today’s super-strength skunk is more than ten times stronger than the weed the hippies smoked and has a higher risk of psychotic episodes. If they go ahead with legalisation, MPs need to consider who is going to pay for all the additional mental hospitals and police we are going to need to deal with a nation affected by cannabis.
L. KING, Hove, E. Sussex. I WAS filled with despair to see three MPs as the guests of a Canadian cannabis grower. How can they entertain the thought of legalising cannabis for recreational use in Britain? Doesn’t the Government realise the true cost to society? The mental health of a high proportion of users is permanently damaged, leaving them unemployable. Cannabis can lead to harder drugs and crime. Families are broken, friendships lost and the downward spiral can end with suicide. Don’t let the liberal-minded destroy future generations by giving in to this proposed legislation. JULIE JONES, Sutton Coldfield, W. Mids. HOW many of those calling for the legalisation of cannabis have read the Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World? All the good citizens take their daily doses of soma to help stamp out individualism. I suspect there are a number of politicians who would be quite happy to see the electorate using a drug that suppresses the critical facilities. If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, then I suspect the price of eternal vigilance is abstention from mind-altering drugs. PETER DAVEY, Bournemouth.