Cannabis report
Sir, — While it is true that tobacco, because it produces physiological dependence, still enjoys a certain amount of what R. Catterall calls “widespread social acceptance,” I cannot agree that cannabis does not. Widespread social acceptance is exactly what, in my opinion, cannabis has achieved, on its own merits as a useful social amenity, enhancing all forms of delight, rather than progressively blotting out the civilised parts of the brain as alcohol does. Does any policeman, any social worker, any teacher, minister, probation officer, or cleaner of public places disagree? Let him widen his reading, let him widen his acquaintance. — Yours, etc., ken McAllister. April 30, 1977.
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Press, 3 May 1977, Page 16
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