May 18, 2012Dear Sir,It is high time we stopped these Gestapo tactics, storming on board cruise ship with sniffer dogs, bursting into cabins and snooping through people’s underwear to find traces of soft drugs. This is an invasion of privacy of the worst sort, and it would not surprise me if cruise ships stopped coming here on account of this. We should remember that cannabis is legal in some states, and often prescribed for medical purposes. It is time we stopped penalising young people for this minor offence, and legalised small amounts of soft drugs for personal use.This would not only improve relations with cruise ship passengers, but go a long way towards reducing violent crime, most of which is drug motivated.Please let us look at the possibilities of changing the present archaic law and make soft drugs in small quantities legal. Perhaps it would have the same result on drug users as lifting prohibition had on drinkers; many people just stopped drinking when booze became legal. You just never know.E RABENPaget