YOU report police discovering a cannabis farm in Manchester growing 4,000 plants with a street-value of £5 million ( Big drug haul seized in police raid , The Herald, April 15). If there ever was an argument to remove the ban on a relatively harmless drug which was only criminalised in this country a century ago to appease foreign financial interests this case is it. Nobody but nobody would expend the time effort and financial investment to set up such an enterprise if there was not a guaranteed market for the product. The legislation covering this topic is way out of step with public opinion and the matter has not and never will be solved by prohibition.
THE manifesto pledges from the SNP detailed by the First Minister ( Sturgeon pledges stability with freeze on income tax , The Herald, April 15) once again demonstrate economic illiteracy at the highest level. The shameless “spend, spend, spend” pledges do not bear any level-headed scrutiny, as so stated by the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies. Transformational” spending as she describes but then in almost the same breath, a freeze on income tax rates, simply do not equate, and when the deficit figures appear, this will be fantasy economics. Nicola Sturgeon was Cabinet Secretary for Health & Wellbeing from 2007–2012 and has been First Minster since 2014. Her “transformational” spending promise equates to just £178 million for each year she has been in power and of course begs the question why it has taken her 14 years to even consider this? Free dental care will only potentially benefit those that can actually afford it as those who are unable to do so at pr
TOM Gordon claims a “dubious whiff coming off Mr Salmond s Alba Party” ( Something doesn’t smell right about the Alba Party , The Herald, April 8), but there is a bit of stink about his argument. He seems puzzled that Alba is not targeting wavering No voters, but as the party that claims that it will “hold the SNP’s feet to the fire if necessary” over seeking independence, just what kind of pitch does Mr Gordon think would be successful? Much of the rest of his argument stands up to a similar – limited – level scrutiny but are basically word games. Mr Gordon is much too experienced a member of the press to expect a politician to offer up “definitions” since, as sure as night follows day, they will be used against them at some point in the future.
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