08/01/2008 00:00:00
Letter: Cannabis Leads to Early Death
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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/
Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=13120
Author:
The Sentinel via UKCIA
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