Pubdate: Sun, 21 Feb 2016
Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)
Copyright: 2016 The Sacramento Bee
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376
Author: Gabriel Lewin
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n088/a01.html

TOBACCO IS WORSE THAN MARIJUANA

Re "Marijuana policies undermine health" (Forum, Another View, Feb. 
14): The idea that marijuana and tobacco are equally bad for you is ludicrous.

Consider: A tobacco smoker typically smokes a cigarette by himself. 
For about 15 minutes he continuously has tobacco smoke in his lungs. 
Not much later he will fire up another cigarette.

Most marijuana smokers will take a quantity of marijuana equivalent 
to a quarter-inch of a cigarette. This gets put in a pipe or rolled 
into a small joint. The smoker takes about two or three puffs and is 
done. Most of it is left unsmoked for later or the next day or next week.

Marijuana does not have the weird chemicals companies put in tobacco, 
and pot does not contain nicotine. If marijuana is a gateway drug to 
heroin then so is mother's milk.

Gabriel Lewin, Davis
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