Pubdate: Tue, 09 May 2000 Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Copyright: 2000, Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: #250, 4990-92 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6B 3A1 Canada Fax: (780) 468-0139 Website: http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonSun/ Forum: http://www.canoe.ca/Chat/home.html Author: Joe Zoretic Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n591/a01.html Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor RE: EDITORIAL, "No to pot ticketing." Assuming pot is a gateway drug is absolutely ignorant. There are so many ways to look up facts in this day and age and you spout off that marijuana is a gateway drug with not one credible study to back it up. There are none for your information. There are some statistics that say something like 80% of hard drug addicts started off smoking marijuana but what you don't know is that 80% of pot smokers stop at pot and they don't even try hard drugs. All pot seems to be a gateway to is the black market. Joe Zoretic (Many support your view.) - --- MAP posted-by: Doc-Hawk