CANNABIS CAMPAIGN: LETTERS

I WAS born in 1939. A few years ago I was told my blood pressure was so
high that I would succumb quickly via a stroke or heart attack. I was
crippled with arthritis and hospitalised three to four times a year. A
member of my family suggested cannabis. Out of sheer desperation I tried
it. After a week of smoking 34 a day my psoriasis had virtually gone and
my blood pressure was normal. Decriminalise cannabis for medical reasons,
for goodness sake.

G A M, Wirral

STAUNCH anticannabis campaigners assume that every user's intention is to
get stoned, but it has been almost a quarter of a century since I was last
in that condition. I look forward to when encouragement of sensible
cannabis use is regarded as responsible behaviour.

Mr "Pipe and Slippers", Staffs

PLEASE stop filling your paper with tedious articles on cannabis. They are
all nonlogical, prejudiced and disconnected from reality. An independent
approach should look at people who have given up and the effects on
personality and health.

Lucian Wischik, Queens' College, Cambridge

I AM a physician and assistant clinical professor of geriatrics. I have not
seen health problems from cannabis of the magnitude of those from tobacco
or alcohol.

John Daly, California, USA