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Letter: Cannabis should be treated like anything that carries small
Alun Buffry Essex Enquirer
Tuesday 24 Jan 2006 Cannabis should be treated like anything that carries small risk WITH REFERENCE the current debate on the possible upgrading of cannabis to a class B drug "Government should 'get real' over plans to regrade cannabis,Jan 12), surely all this takes is a little common sense! The debate seems to be about how much risk is associated with cannabis use. Clearly for most of the 5 million-plus UK users, very little. But the range of opinions expressed in your article suggests that even after all this time, after all the studies and reports we've read, people including our own Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, just don't know! Reader Russ Shepard was right when he said: "Some say it's alright and others are dead against it so that cause problems" Cannabis has been used throughout the world for hundreds of years by hundreds of millions of people. The number of users who seem to have suffered is small - and their tales are quite recent. The very vast majority of users claim benefit. We know something is dangerous when large numbers of people who do it suffer, and we know what is of low risk when only a small number of people suffer That applies to alcohol, tobacco, heroin, sleeping pills, penicillin, aspirin - all of which are purely more dangerous than cannabis. Sky-diving, fast driving, horse racing, boxing, mountaineering and so on, all carry risk, but the law is there with accurate advice and safety precautions to try to reduce the number of people hurt. In those cases the police arrest neither those hurt or those not hurt, unless they are suspected of harming others. With cannabis it seems that they all run the risk of arrest, whether or not they do harm. The answer, I believe, lies in legalising cannabis and treating it like everything else that people do that carries, for some, an element of danger. Yours sincerely Alun Buffry Legalise Cannabis Alliance Via Email
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