Drug prohibition wrecks lives: Letter
Source: The Independent
Date: February 13 2007
Author: Steve Clements, Legalise Cannabis
Alliance
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David
Cameron should consider himself lucky. A criminal conviction for possession of
cannabis could have put an end to a promising career. How many bright young
lives have been, and are still being, wrecked through school expulsions and
criminal proceedings due to the insane prohibition of this plant.
The alleged negative effects on a small minority of users
pale into insignificance compared with the damage being done by prohibition,
and the divide it has opened between millions of law-abiding people and the
authorities who administer justice for this so-called crime.
Mr Cameron asks that we respect the privacy of his past; I
ask him if he will respect my privacy now and allow me to make use of what is,
after all, just a plant.
STEVE CLEMENTS
YORK