LET PEOPLE GROW

Let people grow a couple of marijuana plants in their cupboards. Then there
would be fewer greedy dealers to grow rich from prohibition and encourage
people to try harder drugs. Moreover, a healthy supply of homegrown would
end the need to add tobacco to joints. The many thousands of people who
become hooked on nicotine through smoking spliffs would be spared. Student
funding, meanwhile, would also become less of a problem.

As for ecstasy, lighter penalties for dealers who sell clean pills would be
a cheap and intuitive move. Anyway, the police should be out catching real
villains rather than swooping for soft target loved-up ravers. Polly
Toynbee's article was inspired. Let us campaign to end this ridiculous
prohibition.

Adam Mitchell Nottingham university