PUSHING THE CASE FOR CANNABIS...

Twenty years ago, I allowed myself to be seduced by the drugs culture and
experimented with cannabis. As I did not smoke, I ate the drug instead. The
experience was a nightmare with terrifying hallucinations. I also suffered
flashbacks months later, which eventually caused a mental breakdown. It took
years to recover from this, costing me a place at college and hindering
severely my then future job prospects.

So it was with great sadness, that I read the clarion calls in The Observer
(Comment, last week), for the decriminalisation of this drug. As for Charles
Kennedy's stance on this issue, may I just say that as a voter in a Con/Lib
Dem marginal seat, he is not helping to win my vote at the next general
election.

William Garland, Southampton