26 MAY 1967, Page 27

Reflections of an addict Sir: Dr Plumb has entertainingly sketched

the pro- gress of such drugs as tea from notoriety to the height of respectability (19 May). He might have gone on to note that ermine was bestowed on four or five pedlars of alcohol towards the end of the last century. When can we hope for the appearance of my Lord Hash of Cannabis?