Source: Calgary Sun (Canada) Contact: http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/ Pubdate: July 9, 1998 BYE-BYE GATEWAY Comment: Parenthetical remarks by the Sun editor, headline by hawk REGARDING YOUR comment to a readers' refutation of the gateway theory, "fundamental flaw in their logic." You said "Round up the heroin and crack addicts. They'll all tell you their first taste of drugs was pot." This isn't true. They'll tell you that alcohol or nicotine was their first drug. Actually, the gateway theory is true -- but only because drugs are illegal. Pot smokers are exposed to harder drugs by the pushers who are out to make a buck. It is these unscrupulous people, who say anything to sell their wares, who are the gateway: "Sorry, all out of pot today, wanna try some crack? Naw, you won't get hooked!" Make pot available, as they do in Holland, and the exposure to the sellers of hard drugs is minimized: Bye-bye gateway. Glenn Lingle (Hello, stonies) - --- Checked-by: Mike Gogulski