Sir,

Tom Morton claims (Opinion, 25 March) that alcohol is a good drug
and others are not, merely serving to make their users stupid and
unable to perform to anywhere near the level which they themselves
perceive.

Was his column designed to allow anti-prohibitionists to poke fun
at him for his naive viewpoint, or was he doing it deliberately?
Claiming that alcohol "is subject to rules" sounds to me like an
argument in the favour of legalisation.

The suggestion that cannabis makes you talk rubbish, that even the
"drunkest buffoon would find moronic", needs to be looked at from
the other point of view, where cannabis users interact with others
who have been drinking and are seen as "buffoons", incapable of
holding a rational conversation without arguing ineffectually,
shouting, and possibly even getting violent.

Is it any wonder that the cannabis smoker shies away and becomes
nervous?

Tim Hughes
Wellington St York