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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

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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