Curse of cannabis

THERE is no point in legalising cannabis. I smell it everywhere I go: people and pupils openly smoke it on their way to work and school.

Riding my bike in the middle of the Cheshire countryside, cars pass me with the stench of cannabis wafting from the open windows.

It seems to me that it must already be legal because the police don’t seem to be interested. They are too busy with inclusivity, gender issues and imagined hate crime.

MARK COHEN, Manchester. IT IS incorrect to say cannabis is more dangerous than alcohol. Liver disease due to alcohol abuse is almost always irreversible. The NHS puts these patients at the bottom of the transplant lists. I lost my Dad due to this direct effect of alcohol.

Far fewer people die due to cannabis abuse. People who are stoned do not start fights, unlike many drunks.

If we can’t debate the possibility of decriminalisation of cannabis on the grounds of personal health, perhaps we should start debating the possibility of making alcohol illegal. PETER LARKIN, Gravesend, Kent.