only failed but actually makes the problems created by drug use worse (Many
agree, none act: to ease untold misery, legalise drugs, 2 June). What he
doesn't consider is that the "war" is not only wrong in practice, it is wrong
in principle.
The right to intoxicate is a fundamental human right, as basic as the rights
to worship or to engage in dangerous sports. It's not the state's business to
tell us what to do with our leisure as long as we are not hurting others.
Virtually every society throughout history has used intoxicants; there is
something truly grotesque about our leaders who on the one hand enjoy their
own drinking and smoking, and on the other use the vast revenues they take
from taxing these two drugs in order to pursue and imprison those whose taste
is for an intoxication different to theirs.
**Joe Morison**
_London_
? While agreeing wholeheartedly with Peter Wilby's piece on the benefits of
legalising personal drug use, I must protest against his slur on blind
bluesmen. Blind Lemon Jefferson, born blind; Blind Willie Johnson, blinded as
a ...
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