FUTILE CANNABIS LAWS (1 of 3)

Now that multiple sclerosis sufferers Lezley Gibson and Thomas Yates have
been acquitted by juries of cannabis offences after admitting that they
possessed and used cannabis to relieve their suffering ("MS patient cleared
on cannabis possession", 29 September), the Misuse of Drugs Act has become
inoperable against such people.

The Government has been advised twice to change the law: once by the Lords'
Scientific Committee and once by the Police Foundation report. there is no
longer and need to wait and see what happens to tortured mice. The
Government must now listen and act to change the law.

Mick Humphries, Taunton