CANNABIS BENEFITS

YET again the medical benefits of cannabis are highlighted ('Cancer
victim reveals how she became the first Scot to be prescribed drug for
pain relief', News, May 1). It is wonderful that not only has Jeanie
Rae's chronic pain been eased, but the case for prescription cannabis
has surely been made. As Alistair Ramsay, director of Scotland against
Drugs, is quoted as saying in the article, distinctions have to be
made between abusing drugs for recreation and using them for medical
need.

R MORRISON

Dundee