From Don Martin
David Nutt discusses “the unscientific and primitive… strategy” followed by a number of countries in legislating on recreational drugs (13 June, p 24). He fails to point out that these are motivated by an unshakeable belief among influential parts of their populations that it is morally wrong to get high.
For these people, regardless of evidence, those who like to get high are bad, and need to be discouraged from following their inclinations. While such believers may have been temporarily set back by the failure of prohibition, passing a law that makes any chemically induced high illegal seems right to them.
Toronto, Canada
