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Letter: Cannabis Leads to Early Death
Michael Coleman The Sentinel
Tuesday 08 Jan 2008 I Find some of the comments printed on the letters page in recent weeks regarding the legalising of cannabis very alarming. The reason for this is because I could name five young men who I used to go to Longton High School with who are now dead as a result of drugs overdose and misuse. I won't name these men as I don't wish to embarrass any of the families involved, but I can testify that in all of these tragic cases the young men started their drugs career by using the most accessible "entry" drug, which is cannabis. Inevitably, the cannabis eventually failed to satisfy the addictive needs of these young men and they progressed on to stronger drugs such as heroin, with devastating consequences. These men who were now addicted to heroin entered the "mad world" of the chaotic drug user, an endless and unbroken chain of shoplifting, drug dealing, theft of all descriptions, violence, destruction of their families and ultimately their own death. And so when I hear people calling for cannabis to be legalised, I know full well that it would result in large numbers of very young, very naive people taking up this drug that would in time be replaced by the killer drugs of heroin and crack cocaine. Anyone who sanctions the legalising of cannabis must be living in some sort of a dream world if they think that there would be no adverse consequences to this drug becoming legal. MICHAEL COLEMAN, Councillor for Weston & Meir North Ward http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/
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