The next time the media print that Prince Harry is reputed to have used marijuana, you might mention that his great-great-great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria, did also.

According to her private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, the Queen used it to alleviate the pain caused by her arthritis. Of course, in the Queen's day use was lawful.

I was going to write that perhaps Victoria was under the influence when she chose Ottawa as our nation's capital, but she was too young at the time to have suffered from her late-developing arthritis.

K.W. Arnott

(If Victoria was really a stoner, wouldn't the Victorian Age have been a lot mellower?)

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