Dear Editor Rosemary McLeod s recent column makes good points about slipping people drugs without their knowledge. This is a totally unfunny thing to do fools and bad people have done it for generations and it is never acceptable. Ms McLeod is right in suggesting that cannabis poses health risks to the unsuspecting. For example, a study of heart attack survivors, presented at the American Heart Association s Conference last year found that middle aged and older cannabis smokers, more than quadruple their risk of a heart attack during the first hour after smoking cannabis.
Cannabis raises the heart rate and can put pressure on a weak heart.
Ms McLeod does go a bit overboard when she says drug users don t see that such behaviour is an abuse of other people. She suggests that this thinking may be the result of drug use. If this is the case then alcohol must be dulling our minds as well. Alcohol is a drug, and is used as such. People have been intentionally getting other people drunk for a long time.