[Niamh.]

Can we just put the studies and statistics aside for a minute please? Lets just think about our own life experiences for minute, how many people do you personally know whose lives have been destroyed by Smoking Marijuana?? I don't know any. How many people do you know personally whose lives have been destroyed by alcohol?? 2 spring to mind for me- My 28 year old cousin, a qualified dentist, lost her job because of alcoholism and last year threw herself into a river and died. My husbands mother was killed in a car accident when my husband was 13, the cause? A drunk priest driving on the wrong side of the road.

I'm not saying drink should be banned but to me if you are going to condem smoking marijuana then you should do the same for alcohol!