Colorado, Washington first states to legalize recreational pot

Chicago Tribune ^ | 11/07/2012 | Keith Coffman and Nicole Neroulias

[JustSayNoToNannies]

The gateway claim is nonsense - research shows that the correlation between earlier marijuana use and later use of other drugs can be explained by a "common-factor" model, that is, a third factor that causes both results, such as individuals' opportunities and unique propensities to use drugs, or mor broadly a social or psychological predisposition towards anti-social behaviour. (http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6010/index1.html, http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors253.pdf)

Also note that the same sort of correlation between earlier marijuana and later harder drugs also exists between earlier alcohol and tobacco and later illegal drugs - so if marijuana is a "gateway" so are alcohol and tobacco.

[wardaddy]

I didn’t admit anything honey....nice straw man dodge though

First drug I ever took was a Kool menthol non filter...then Falstaff ..in steel can...then a Darvon

actually come to think of it...Paregoric as a baby..that anise flavor..hence I guess I went right to opiates eh..teething little junkie I was by Reefer Madness logic

Good lord

FReepers preoccupation with marihuana is nonsensical

arguably one of the prime conduits to privacy and property rights...and guns too while we are at it...erosion

I will never ever agree with you on this...you need to think outside your confessed issues with mom and her pot

cause everyone is not like that

I’m sorry your generation gets the blame their folks so much for everything...I’m a lot older than you and we had screwed up folks too at times but nobody droned on about it

you know why?

nobody would listen

there were victim groups then

just oppressive white males...and it was great..lol

[RinaseaofDs]

Your generation will go down, not as the boomers, but as the locusts. After you guys, there won’t be anything left.

And it isn’t our preoccupation with your generation’s use of drugs, whatever they happened to be - it’s your generation’s proclivity for bailing on their responsibilities.

[Black Agnes]

I’m gonna pop popcorn for his response to this one. Specially that last sentence.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

First drug I ever took was a Kool menthol non filter...then Falstaff ..in steel can

Yup, those are gateway drugs if anything is.