I read the sad story of Adam and Cameron, two brothers addicted to heroin ("Baltimore County family struggles with impact of heroin's grip," March 21).
I hope readers don't miss the passage that states the boys started using marijuana as teenagers and then progressed to heroin. For those who think marijuana is harmless, there are too many stories like theirs, of people who find in marijuana a gateway drug to harder drug and alcohol abuse.
We cannot on the one hand encourage people to use marijuana by legalizing it and on the other hand hope to stem their use of heroin and other narcotics.
We need to instead work to reduce the exposure of everyone to all potentially harmful drugs.
Lisa Thompson, Baltimore