GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER FOR YOUNG

I am 25 and have always assumed that once my grandparents' generation
had died, my parents' lot would constitute a more enlightened elderly
demographic. Unfortunately, Mary Warnock ('We are far too tolerant
when it comes to vice and drugs', Comment, last week) seems to show
that with age comes that same irrationality and reactionism. I've
smoked cannabis every day since I was 15. I have a 2:1 degree, many
friends and a full-time job looking after people with learning
difficulties. All your survey demonstrates is that the media
propaganda against cannabis is working.

Mary Warnock seems to be mistaking her experiences and idealistic
opinions as fact. Would she rather prostitution and cannabis were
banished and underground, infected with criminality, or accepted as
part of the fallibility of human nature and grudgingly tolerated?

Joel Hartley, Leeds