The USSR never pushed drugs

I love your publication but you've got something very, very wrong in Brendan O'Neill's piece about the pro-drugs lobby pushing an authoritarian argument for legalising cannabis (February 19).

Your piece claims that the USSR routinely medicated its populace with psychotropic drugs to prevent them protesting about the regime.

This is utter bollocks, I'm afraid.

I hope you'll consider amending your story accordingly? You do yourselves a grave injustice by allowing this kind of twaddle to creep into your articles.

Best Regards from Moscow

Neil McGowan

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