Letters: Legalising cannabis will open Pandora's box

Legalising cannabis will open Pandora's box, a readers says. Photo/File.

Legalising cannabis

Police Minister Stuart Nash rightly sees possible problems should cops turn up stoned if cannabis is legalised (News, October 10). Should we also be concerned about surgeons, firemen, teachers and so the list goes on?

A Pandora's box is potentially going to open. Surely liberalising what is already a major problem will hardly improve social, health and educational prospects, especially for the young or the masses in general. Weak political expedience is the only conclusion.

Paradoxically cigarettes are to be banned and this is seen as progressive and beneficial.

Grant Nelson
Matua

Fluoride

Mr Godfrey (Letters, October 10) seems to suggest the fluoride industry is funded by the sugar industry. This statement, in my view, is a pure unproven opinion on his part.

Mr Godfrey has written an article that states New Zealanders are overdosed on fluoride.
This is not supported by science.

The Ministry of Health states: "Skeletal fluorosis is found in countries where groundwater with very high natural levels of fluoride is used for drinking water sources. At the levels used for community water fluoridation in New Zealand, skeletal fluorosis is not seen." (Abridged)

C Price
Palmerston North

TV programming
Sky scheduled on Rialto Channel the first series of the Swedish thriller The Teach.

They showed the first six episodes of the first series and then they started episode six of the second series of 16 episodes.

So the last four episodes of series one and the first five episodes of series two were not available for viewers. What will they do now?

Bryan Johnson
Ōmokoroa