IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO RECLASSIFY CANNABIS

Sir, According to your figures, about 8.25 per cent of the country's
37 million 16-59 year-olds use cannabis. This is more than three
million people. If cannabis were reclassified as a class B drug and
these people were all imprisoned for up to five years for possession --
as the law would require -- the Home Office would have to build more
than 700 maximum size prisons to accommodate them.

It is hardly joined-up thinking to criminalise such a large proportion
of the population. Cannabis use clearly has some risks but prohibition
has never worked.

Andrew Holt

London N10