From Brian Milner, Brunel University
London
“Marijuana as medicine? Tough-on-drugs America is finally coming around to
the idea that the evil weed might do some patients a power of good” (“Turn on,
tune in, get well”, 15 March, p 14).
Evil weed? Not according to the death tolls in Britain, as taken here from a
recent parliamentary Early Day Motion: “Cannabis and Tobacco Use, 25/1/94, Paul
Flynn MP. Description—That this House notes that each year in the United
Kingdom deaths attributable to drug use are: cannabis 0, heroin 100, alcohol 25
000, and tobacco 110 000 and that society jails cannabis users while spending
£100 million plus on tobacco use; and calls for a Royal Commission to
investigate drug use.”
I think you’ll find it is tobacco that has always been referred to as the
evil weed, and rightly so.
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