OUR AIM SHOULD BE TO REDUCE CANNABIS HARM

Sir-Mr Logan originally (February 28) declared that cannabis was "routinely
available" to anyone wanting it. The law's prohibition, in other words, was
largely useless. This was, indeed, his one sensible point. He now (March 15)
claims prohibition is "not a failure" - that it does work. His facts, and
his own words, belie him.

Prohibition, he adds, works only when supported by social attitudes, but he
complains that these attitudes do not exist here.

His proposed "education" is presumably not education in responsible use -
for that would connive at illegality - but education in cannabis horrors,
and the necessity of total abstinence. By preventing education for
responsible use, he ensures that cannabis use will continue unguided and
unregulated.

Our aim, surely, should be not to stop cannabis use (impossible), but to
avoid any possible cannabis harm. Mr Logan seems determined to prevent that.

D.J.ROUND