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   From: late1@xx.com   
      
    CBC did a bit of a marijuana special on the tube this week.   
      
   I was shocked to see so-called police experts still spouting two old-time   
   fables ... Their lack of sophistication, in 2004, is astounding.   
      
   1)  Pot is a gateway drug and leads users to harder stuff ... Surely, if   
   this were true, there would be a cocaine and heroin epidemic among Baby   
   Boomers and people who have been smoking pot for decades.  There is no such   
   epidemic.   People settle in to pot and hash and stay there.   
      
   2)  Today's pot is too strong.    Yes, and whisky is a lot stronger than   
   beer and wine, but they still sell that in the liquor store.   
      
   Today's pot is stronger, which is why we smoke less of it per use.  Much as   
   one might pour a two-ounce shot of whisky, instead of drinking the stuff   
   like beer, a pot smoker smokes smaller amounts.   
      
   But, incredibly, to the narrow minded police officials on the drug squads,   
   those two misconceptions are not only true, they justify enforcing a law   
   that incarcerates people for these reasons.   
      
   The stupidity is maddening.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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