Marijuana Policy Project

The meth series contains the connotation that cannabis (marijuana) is the gateway drug ("'When you clean up, I'll give your kids back,'" Nov. 4) of addict's problems, which is not the truth. Almost every study including government studies discredits the gateway theory. If cannabis was regulated similar to alcohol, citizens would not be purchasing the relatively safe God-given plant from drug dealers who do not card for age. Further, after all the lies government, and law enforcement say about cannabis, how do citizens and especially youth know they're telling the truth about meth? According to government, cannabis is the biggest problem in America, not meth, just ask the U.S. drug czar. Today's pot is more like cocaine, causing cancer and all. Cannabis, which has never killed anyone in over 5,000 years of documented use, is a Schedule I substance right next to heroin, and meth is only a Schedule II substance; so meth must not be a big deal, right?

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.