IT is argued that cannabis is less deleterious to health than alcohol and tobacco.

It can also be argued that, whereas alcohol leads to domestic violence and hooliganism, cannabis does not.

Then what is wrong with cannabis? The official line is that it leads on to people experimenting with drugs.

This may be true up to a point, but could it not be argued that such people eventually get hooked on hard drugs, from having constantly to go back to the sole suppliers of cannabis, those execrable dealers?

What if, under a properly though out system of licensing, the underworld were to be stripped of its monopoly?

Ideally, both alcohol and cannabis should only be taken on a doctor's prescription.

In a less than perfect world, a modus vivendi appears to be of the essence, even though one holds to the belief that the fewer people indulging in cannabis the better.

The same goes for chappies swilling alcoholic beverages to the point of throwing up.

Where do we go from here?

JACK TIPPLE

Roundway Gardens

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