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Letter: Article Got To The Grassroots by MICHAEL NENDICK

Michael Nendick

Irish Examiner

Tuesday 29 Aug 2000

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ARTICLE GOT TO THE GRASSROOTS

THANK you for publishing an article about cannabis and the prohibition
laws which make criminals of those of us who choose to buy or grow it.
Your paper truly lived up to its name. Cannabis is a remarkably benign
substance -- far safer than alcohol or tobacco. You may hear politicians
say that we should not legalise another drug because that would only
make matters worse. When cannabis is available to me I choose it instead
of alcohol.

Reports from the European Soccer Championship in Amsterdam suggest that
fans who might usually get involved in alcohol fuelled troublemaking
were content to puff on a joint or three and chat amiably with other fans.

There is every indication that legalising cannabis would not be the
dangerous social experiment that senior politicians mew about. Why do we
tolerate the government violating us for what we choose to put in our
bodies?

I would like some more of the civil liberties that we are taught to
expect from a liberal democracy. How much longer shall we suffer the
dangerous social experiment of prohibition?

Michael Nendick, Herts, England

 

 

 

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