Pubdate: Sun, 22 Nov 2015
Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)
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Author: Gabriel Lewin

POOR LOGIC ON DRUG ADDICTION

Re "Weed law will not protect kids" (The Conversation, Letters, Nov. 
15): We need draconian laws against illegal parking! Stiff fines, 
jail terms, confiscate the cars. Why, you ask? All reckless drivers 
have dabbled in illegal parking at some point. Ridiculous? This 
argument works for pot, why not illegal parking? The same argument 
implies that mother's milk and alcohol and tobacco lead to drug addiction.

Doris Concklin wrote that "it is without question an entry drug for 
those who will come to embrace a drug culture." Actually there is a 
lot to question here. She says that all mothers who began with 
marijuana moved on to meth, heroin and cocaine.

But there are tens of millions of marijuana users who never become 
addicts of other drugs. Frankly, my hypothesis is that people who use 
pot and move on to stronger drugs find that pot is not what they are 
looking for to ease their mental pain.

Gabriel Lewin, Davis
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