Letter: Law Makes No Distinction When it comes to Cannabis
Source: The Sentinel
Date: January 4 2008
Author: Alun Buffry
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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/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/
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/
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