Sir-If Bruce Logan (March 15) wants to keep children drug-free, then
he is going about it the wrong way.

Parliament's cannabis inquiry concluded that young people react
against hypocrisy, in that alcohol and tobacco cause obvious harms,
and yet cannabis is criminalised when its harms are less apparent.

Instead of spending hundreds of millions sending very confusing
messages through an inequitable use of law, surely the way to enable
recognition and minimisation of the risks of these drugs is to have
consistency in the age of consent - and respect for the adult's right
to decide.

KEVIN O'CONNELL,
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party