Many overseas governments including several US states have legalised cannabis. Photo/File
I totally agree with G.J. Philip (Letters, September 13) when he argues cannabis should not be legalised.
It strikes me as ironic that over the years various governments have taken steps to outlaw tobacco smoking because of the costly health issues generated. Now we have the minor parties wanting cannabis
to take its place as a social curse with all the ills and issues, both physical and mental, that it would cause. It just does not add up.
Legalising it just because other countries have done so, does not prove it is harmless and I suspect that if those American states that have were researched, they would be found to be experiencing the very same problems I mentioned above.
Parliament would be wise to place cannabis under the same law as the synthetic stuff now is and make the advocates prove it is harmless before any law is changed to make it legal. To my mind, it does not make any sense whatsoever to replace one nuisance substance with another and create more social problems.
But then that's how politicians work. They like to solve one problem by creating another.
