re: "Champions of pot plot pro-bill rally" (BP, November 19, 2022)
Dear editor,
Other than objecting on principle to free citizens choosing how to live their own lives without directly harming others, or an even more principled objection to adults having fun at all, what is wrong with recreational use of cannabis that does not apply with at least equal force to recreational use of alcohol?
Those in favour of freedom, of personal liberties, should support the legalization of cannabis for sale and use by consenting adults, with due safeguards against underage or other inappropriate use. Those safeguards need be no more than now obtain for both alcohol and cigarettes, both of whose recreational uses are more harmful to society and, especially for alcohol, pose a greater threat to the underaged than does fully legal recreational use of cannabis.
Some of the hysteria around this very sensible policy change, albeit botched in execution, of the current Thai government is reminiscent of the addled thinking of drug damaged brains. Might some perhaps have been at the alcohol too much in their youth?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on November 21, 2022, under the title "Cannabis sensibility" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2442345/cannabis-sensibility
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