Legalise cannabis? It stole my son’s best years
SHOULD cannabis be legalised (Mail)? My son started smoking this awful stuff at the age of 14. I wasn’t aware of his habit for the first few years, thinking his mood changes were down to teenage angst. Once I realised that he had become addicted to skunk, a super-strength and highly potent version of the drug, I would beg him to stop every day. Eventually, aged 25 and at the risk of losing all that was dear to him – his job,
Comedy World Cup
THERE is a new game show on TV, showing three times a day – it’s called the World Cup. They call it football, but it incorporates side shows. Men in colourful slippers chase a ball and try to get it into a net each end of a well-kept lawn.
When bodily contact is made, they roll around on the ground. When a corner is taken, the goal area becomes three games in one: Strictly Come Dancing, wrestling and swap shop for your shirt.
If one of the performers overacts, he can be shown a red card, which means he gets time off to visit the local bars. Who says comedy is dead?
RICHARD WOSKETT, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts.
Lazy? Not all lads!
STOP the endless sniping at ‘lazy’ children and teenagers. girlfriend and family life – he finally gave it up. Within only a few months, our hermit of a boy was so much happier. ‘I didn’t know life could be so good, Mum,’ he told me. Six years later, he has his own home, is married and is the proud father of a little boy. All good news, but there is a lasting legacy of his years of cannabis use that comes to the fore when he is at a low ebb. He gets feelings of self-doubt, hopelessness and self-persecution that My 14-year-old grandson and his mates round off a full day at school by going swimming or to the gym. No one makes them – they enjoy it and are keen on being fit.
Midweek they all go to evening football training and at weekends to matches and tournaments.
Sometimes we think video games would be safer because he has suffered a concussion and has ended up in plaster after damaging his foot ligaments. He does enjoy computer games, but when he logs on, he is chatting and playing against friends in their homes. JANET BUCKLEY, Hastings, E. Sussex.
Spooked snowflakes
SCHOOLCHILDREN will no longer be allowed to read about demons, alcohol, death, witches and even religion (Mail). So will William Shakespeare, are painful to witness. He usually recovers within a day or two, but I am convinced these symptoms are the result of his years of puffing. I have heard of the benefits of cannabis oil for children with epilepsy and patients with painful conditions, and hope that something could be done for such cases. But legalise cannabis for so-called recreational use? I am convinced no good could come of it.
Name and address supplied. the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, Charles Dickens, Harry Potter and the Bible be banned?
If this isn’t an encouragement to foster a snowflake generation, then I don’t know what is.
Not only will young people be ignorant about literature, but when they are confronted by difficult situations, the poor dears will fall apart.
DAVID MORGAN, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.