CREATE RATIONAL LAWS

Alcohol, tobacco and medicines are legal, their risks are played down and
they are promoted while consumers of cannabis (hashish and marijuana) are
still punished and derided. Even from excess cannabis consumption nobody
has died ... which one can't say about alcohol or tobacco!

This does not mean that cannabis is innocuous. Smoked in combination with
tobacco, cannabis represents a risk particularly for the respiratory organs!

The prohibition of cannabis is no longer respected by large parts of
society. Prohibition does not prevent consumption. Cannabis should be
legalized because repressive policies are counterproductive, ineffective,
senseless and expensive. Adults are treated as under age and thereby minors
couldn't be protected!

By a legal regulation of cannabis with controlled sales in special stores,
age checks could be done. The illegal market would collapse and the state
could redirect funds from interdiction into effective pubic health and drug
education.

It does not make sense to have arbitrary and discriminatory laws that cause
more damage to the life of persons than arguably, any harms which are meant
to be prevented. Being labelled as a criminal with all resulting social
consequences is worse than any harms of the consumption of hashish. The
politicians must be required to create rational laws!

Johnny Theisen

Luxembourg

(It seems like a good time to re-examine our drug laws)