maybe you could print off a few facts for her.....I don't know which sites to go to in GB but the info is the same.....

There is no evidence that smoking marijuana leads to the use of harder drugs. In the first place, it is chemically illogical that the consumption of any drug could give someone the craving for another drug they have never had.

When the Marihuana Tax Act was first passed in 1937, Harry Anslinger, then head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics testified before Congress and was asked specifically if there was any association between the use of marijuana and the use of harder drugs. He replied specifically that there was no such connection and that the users of the different types of drugs commonly did not associate with each other.

This myth arose in the 1950's when it became apparent that the old motives for the law against marijuana would no longer be viable. It was then that Anslinger contradicted his earlier testimony and started saying that marijuana led to harder drugs. This change occurred most prominently in the hearings for the Boggs Act of 1951, after a series of doctors had just destroyed everything Harry Anslinger had said about marijuana in 1937.

For Harry Anslinger's testimony, see the hearings for the Marihuana Tax Act.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...act/taxact.htm

For a short discussion of the origins of the "gateway" myth and how it arose at the hearings for the Boggs Act see The History of the Drug Laws, a short speech by Professor Charles Whitebread, of USC Law School.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/whiteb1.htm

For a more complete discussion of some of these issues, please see The Myth of Marijuana's Gateway Effect by John P. Morgan, M.D. and Lynn Zimmer, Ph.D.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...asicfax.htm#q6

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mjgate.htm


http://www.mpp.org/OR/news_8320.html

Addictiveness of Marijuana
vs. Five
Commonly Used Drugs

http://www.procon.org/AddictChart.htm