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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Not so fast
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:37:36 -0700

Well, living in the Emerald Triangle <g> I am quite familiar with the whole Mary Jane thing. And it is frequently a conversation up here in our hills.

One of our current conversations is about the whole gateway drug thing. The way you frame it could be an argument (illegal to illegal).

And, that might be just one more point in our argument since most folks actually start by smoking cigarettes when they are illegal (due to age). So, we posit that the true gateway drug is tobacco <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>

There was a hot debate on the local radio program a few weeks ago about
whether marijuana use led to harder drug use. Those proposing this, I though,
committed the very sort of error of logic I've pointed out .... while most
people using heroin and cocaine used marijuana first, most people who use
marijuana never use the more dangerous drugs.

What was pointed out, and I think this holds a lot of water, is the most of
us don't want to break the law. Ever. What marijuana does is not so much
introduce someone to drugs but rather introduces someone to illegality.
They have overcome their reluctance to break the law ... and THIS leads to
using worse (and more illegal) drugs and other illegal behavior.

Can it be so different with illegal immigrants? I don't buy the "better
life" argument. Once you have overcome your reluctance to break the law, more
lawlessness is just to easy to follow.
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