[dayglored]

> I suspect that my thoughts will be attacked with mass posting.

You were right about that.

What you say about pot is true of ANY minor wrong-doing, softening one's attitude towards other wrong-doings.

Speeding?

Pre-marital sex?

Leaving the office early (these days, kicking back for a nap early)?

Any of a million "Little White Lies"?

Eating the last cookie and blaming it on your sibling?

In other words, you pick on "pot" as a Gateway Crime" but it's one of a million such.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

~ C.S. Lewis

[familyop]

"What you say about pot is true of ANY minor wrong-doing, softening one's attitude towards other wrong-doings."

Drugs directly change brain function (GABA receptors, radical decreases in inhibitions) and are far more addictive.