CANNABIS CAMPAIGN LETTERS

JACK Straw has, since becoming Home Secretary, proclaimed publicly that
parents should be held legally responsible for the criminal activities of
their offspring; a notion that he suggested to me when we were both law
students at Leeds University in the 1960s. Therefore, I should like him to
tell your readers how he proposes to punish himself!

David Oddy, Buxton, Derbyshire
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I HAVE been refraining from NHS-prescribed pain-relieving drugs for some 16
months in favour of smoking/eating cannabis. My mental age has risen back
to what it was when I passed my degree three years ago and if I'd carried
on taking prescribed DF-118's I believe I'd probably be dead by now. Many
thanks for involving yourselves in the "Legalise It" campaign.

Justine N Shuter
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I HAVE smoked cannabis since 1982. My brother committed suicide last year
after using Prozac for depression for quite some time after giving up the
use of the weed. I wish he had stayed on it - he was a nice guy and I miss
him.

Paul McQueen
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IN THE wake of the Jack Straw cannabis controversy and your ongoing
campaign to have the drug legalised, it strikes me that no one is
addressing the real drugs issue here. Namely, why on earth have we become
so unhappy and disillusioned with modern life that we feel the need to walk
around either half-doped or in pursuit of artificial joy all the time?

Once we start asking the real questions then maybe we, as what is
supposedly the most intelligent species on earth, can get our (clear
enough) heads together and start working out how we can make life better
for ourselves so that it really is improved - outside our heads as well as
in - 24 hours a day. Or is that just a drug-induced fantasy?

Miss LS King, Blackbird Leys, Oxford
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DID you see Leah Betts or speak to her parents to see the heartbreak of the
death of their beloved daughter. All drugs are dangerous. We need a lot
more Jack Straws. Drugs are trash. You and your editor should take a one
way ticket to Iran where they chop your hands off for being a dopehead.

Anon