Fair trade cocaine wouldn't delight dealers | Brief letters

Middle-class cocaine use | Black photographers in Vogue | Maya Angelou and Rudyard Kipling | The Silk Roads | Whale-dolphin hybridAll cocaine use, regardless of class - in fact all illicit drug use, regardless of class - causes misery through the supply chain (Middle-class cocaine use fuels misery, says Met chief, 1 August). Worse, it lines the pockets of some of the nastiest people on the planet. The answer, of course, is to treat adults as adults and legalise, regulate and control the supply. That way everyone, the middle classes included, can enjoy their recreational drug of choice, and might even be able to choose fair trade cocaine if they so wish.Edward CollierCheltenham, Gloucestershireo Regarding your feature "Why it takes Beyoncé to get a black photographer on the cover of US Vogue" (Shortcuts, G2, 1 August), I don't want to suggest that photography as a profession is in any way liberal or enlightened, but for the record it should be noted that Gordon Parks worked for Vogue back in the 1960s.Neil BurgessDirector, NB Pictures Continue reading...