04/01/2008 00:00:00
Letter: Law Makes No Distinction When it comes to Cannabis
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In His letter: I can't support this insanity (The Sentinel, December
27), Mr Cope concedes more than our Government on cannabis.
http://ccguide.org.uk/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=13093
He wrote: "I have no problem with cannabis being used for medicinal
purposes to alleviate pain."
There is no distinction under the Misuse of Drugs Act between the uses
of cannabis, whether it is used by sick or injured people in an attempt
to feel better and relieve symptoms, or by others just to feel better
(get high), the possession of cannabis is still an offence.
As a retired policeman, I wonder how Mr Cope would have felt arresting
sick and suffering people who had done no harm to anyone, under this
unjust system. Maybe, just maybe, in some cases, he may have done his
job with some slight feeling that the law was wrong to arrest people
whom he may have deemed "medical users".
Maybe, like myself, he would have found it difficult to draw a line, and
would have seen that in all cases it is hard to support punishment where
the user has done no harm. Is it just, I ask, to punish hundreds of
thousands or people in order to protect the minority of people
vulnerable to cannabis use, especially when it is quite clear that the
law has done nothing to help them either?
ALUN BUFFRY
Stoke-on-Trent
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/
Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=13103
Author:
The Sentinel via UKCIA
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