Oh man, here we go again. I wasn't going to write another letter but I can't help it, it's in my DNA.

Why on Earth do we want to legalise cannabis? Why is this so important to the government? Is it a Labour/Greens re-election campaign or another avenue for revenue gathering?

I can totally agree to medical marijuana for people who are suffering and that should be cheap to buy for them. This government wants to ban tobacco smoking by 2025 but wants to make cannabis smoking legal. What a contradiction. That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. If I can't buy smokes, I'm definitely going to buy and grow cannabis, if it's legal. Hell yeah, even if I don't smoke it now, you take away one drug, humans will always find another.

Simply just decriminalise marijuana, it doesn't have to be a criminal offence. Target the big growers with hefty fines and jail and your casual smoker - just a ticket will do, if that. He's doing no-one any harm. If we legalise it, there's going to be lots of people like myself with another problem to deal with. At least with tobacco, you're functioning fine. With cannabis, well, you're either laughing, hungry, thirsty as hell, and non-functioning, two steps behind. Let's make it quite clear, it's a drug, tobacco and alcohol are also. Your body, over time, will want more and more as you become immune or should I say, addicted to it. The effect becomes harder to get. It's not rocket science now, is it?

Ferry de Graaf