I agree with the government for sacking Professor David Nutt, who is telling people that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes ("Ministers face rebellion on drug chief's sacking", News).I have manic depression, diagnosed after I had my first breakdown, aged 15. Twenty four years on and I am still suffering. Cannabis has been instrumental in my affliction. I smoked my first joint a couple of months before my initial breakdown. Since then, during hypomanic phases, I smoked more, resulting in being arrested about five times and sent to the locked ward of the Royal Edinburgh mental asylum around 10 times. Almost every bad episode of my illness has been preceded by smoking cannabis, though I have never taken ...