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blissNO@SPAMcalifornia.com (bobbie sellers) wrote:

> >     *      It causes heroin addiction, 99.9% of heroin addicts 
> > started by smoking cannabis.
> 
>     Most smokers start by smoking tobacco, i.e. cigarettes.  The
> sale of cigarettes should be banned and only bulk tobacco and papers
> made available to the end users.

As Richard Neville wrote in his excellent book Playpower, back in the
early 1970s:

Q: Is it true that most heroin users started out by smoking cannabis?

A: Yes. However, more of them started by drinking milk.

[Paraphrased as my son has borrowed my copy of Playpower]

Jon, Hants/Berks/Surrey borders.