Pubdate: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA) Copyright: 2002 Cox Interactive Media. Contact: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/28 Author: James Meek DRUGS' PLEASURE COMES WITH RISK Jonathan Zimmerman's argument that we should tell kids the truth about the pleasure of drugs is axiomatic ("Telling kids basic truth about drugs best policy," April 16). Obviously, marijuana gives pleasure. So do heroin, cocaine and alcohol. Surely any intelligent kid knows this from simple logic, if not experience. Why else would people jeopardize their health, their future and their freedom if there were no pleasure to be had? The more salient question is whether they know that with the pleasure comes a measurable risk of the most egregious depths of human despair, degradation and enslavement. JAMES MEEK, Tucker - --- MAP posted-by: Ariel