Alcohol is the most abused drug in Ireland

AFTER reading the article by Jennifer Hough called “Critically ill breaking law by using cannabis for pain relief” (June 6), I felt that the statement made about cannabis being the most abused drug in Ireland to be very false and quite misleading, in my opinion.

Through different groups I follow online and other articles I have read, I have learned that in fact there has never been a death recorded whose cause was cannabis.

In fact, you would have to smoke approx 300 joints a day to die and at that, you would die of carbon monoxide poisoning and not actually from the drug itself.

I believe in fact, as do many others the world over, that alcohol is the single most abused drug in this and many other countries.

A lot of people, professional and otherwise, believe that it is because alcohol is not viewed by the majority of people in the country as a drug in the first place that alcoholism and binge drinking is such a problem in our society.

There is tons more information on this subject out there, so I find it hard to believe that you would publish such a reckless statement on the front page of your newspaper.

Eoin O’Donnell

Cahir

Co Tipperary