MARIJUANA STILL GATEWAY DRUG

I am writing in response to your medical marijuana article ("Supes to feds:
Pot OK in The City," The Examiner, Nov. 27).

Under no circumstances should pot be OK to smoke, whether for medicinal
purposes or leisure. The effects needed from marijuana for patients can be
derived from a pill that is made from the same substance.

Local authorities are below federal drug enforcement officials and
therefore have no place ignoring the federal law.

I agree that heroin and cocaine are a bigger priority for arrests and
charges, however, the use of marijuana is inarguably a step toward these
hard-core drugs.

Nicole Dotto

The City