THE Government is right to want to outlaw cannabis and other drugs.

After seeing the lethal effects they can have on people who take to the wheel of powerful cars, I believe they should stay outlawed (Counting the cost of drug driving, December 29).

It just shows what tragedy can and does happen when under the effect of drugs. It shows how right the Government is in keeping cannabis and other mind-numbing drugs from being legalised.

Those people who campaign that drugs such as cannabis should be made legal should take a long look at the horrific pictures of the tragic car crash in which a young man died.

The driver is in prison due to driving with cannabis in his system. Keep cannabis outlawed.

Terry Smith,

Fourth Avenue,

Heworth,

York.

Updated: 10:31 Wednesday, January 04, 2006