WRITER DISPUTES POT, HARD DRUG TIE

Regarding Christina Blizzard's column, Pot proposal peeves Mazzilli (Dec. 17).

This bit of information is from WebMD.lycos.com:

". . . researchers from a policy-researching think tank suggest in the
British Medical journal, Addiction, that teens likely to experiment with
drugs such as cocaine, heroin and hallucinogens would do so regardless of
whether or no they used marijuana first."

"Kids who have a high propensity to use drugs will use whatever drug they
have the first opportunity to use," says Andrew Morral of the RAND Drug
Policy Research Centre in Arlington, Va. "Usually, their first opportunity
is to use marijuana."

Mazzilli's arguments seem to to be unresearched, so they should not be
taken seriously.

Tobacco and alcohol have caused more fatalities combined than marijuana in
20 years. And, marijuana is less addictive than tobacco and alcohol.

Those last two bits of information can be found in any one of the many high
schools in London.

How do I know that, because that's where I learned it.

C. R. Hedley, London