Pubdate: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 Source: Sacramento Bee (CA) Copyright: 2015 The Sacramento Bee Contact: http://mapinc.org/url/0n4cG7L1 Website: http://www.sacbee.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376 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 - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom