MARIJUANA INSPIRES CORRUPTION IN SOCIETY

Editor:

Sunday's (Aug. 4) Kathleen Parker column talks about drugs, specifically
marijuana, and if I understand her point, Parker strongly implies marijuana
is useful in society. She (Parker) politely criticizes Barbara Eden for
Eden's anti-drug stance.

A news flash to Parker, "there is no drug expert in this or any country."
There are only those who have spent a lifetime to understand drugs. Eden
feels passionate in her commentary on Larry King simply because simply
because she lost her son to drugs.

Parker's comparison of marijuana to alcohol is simply incorrect. Smoking
one joint certainly has more impact on one's physical and emotional being
than having one beer or glass of wine. Parker indicates that a marijuana
user is necessarily not a heroin abuser; according to Parker, beer and/or
wine, in a sense, can be used interchangeably and the effects in becoming a
heroin user -- equal.

If Kathleen Parker or anyone performed a survey or test regarding abusers
of marijuana and abusers of alcohol, I am willing to bet that a much
greater percentage of marijuana abusers become addicted to heroin than
alcohol abusers.

Besides, the entire matter is academic. The possession and/or use of
marijuana is reportedly against the law the last time I looked. Drugs like
marijuana involve an element of society that most respectable people avoid.

The CEOs of the drug world do not pay taxes, cause chaos, and normally
conspire with underworld characters from all over the world, including
terrorists. To Kathleen Parker -- the marijuana trade involves billions of
revenue that inspire corruption within our society. Whatever medicinal use
is advocated in our society should and must be contained.

VINCENT M. MILANO, Gansevoort