Pubdate: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 Source: Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Copyright: 2015 The Arizona Republic Contact: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/sendaletter.html Website: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/24 Author: Robert Ryden DON'T DRAW THE ERRONEOUS LINE FROM MARIJUANA TO HEROIN A recent letter writer opposed the legalization of marijuana on the grounds that most users of heroin started with marijuana ( "A lot of those doing hard drugs got started with pot," Letters, Monday). That is true, of course, but it's also irrelevant. You might as well try to ban milk, because most heroin users were once milk drinkers. No, the relevant question is this: of all users of marijuana, how many go on to use hard drugs? That number will be very small, and it is likely that most of that number would be using heroin whether marijuana was legal or not. Robert Ryden Apache Junction - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom