DRUGS: LEGALIZE POT

Dear editor,

Cannabis should be legalized. 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!

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.

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 arbitary and discriminatory laws that cause
more damage 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