Pubdate: Thu, 13 Mar 2014
Source: Reno News & Review (NV)
Copyright: 2014 Stan White
Contact:  http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2524
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n188/a12.html

LIES LEAD TO ADDICTION

Re "Drug Prohibition Fuels Society's Ills," Feb. 20):

Cannabis (marijuana) prohibition and its conspirers increase hard-drug
addiction rates.

Government claims heroin is no worse than cannabis and that
methamphetamine and cocaine are less harmful by insisting cannabis is
a Schedule I substance alongside heroin, while methamphetamine and
cocaine are only Schedule II substances.

How many citizens tried cannabis and realized it is not nearly as
dangerous as claimed and believed other substances must not be either
only to find themselves addicted to hard drugs? Can the message from
cannabis prohibitionists be any worse for vulnerable citizens?

Stan White

Dillon, Colo. 
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