LOL!
What I never got about the gateway argument is why it excludes smoking and drinking, which if I recall childhood accurately came before marijuana “experimentation.” Obviously, the answer is we tried banning booze and failed, and smokers are too big a lobby, even though they toy the runnaround with those idiotic lawsuits and stupid restrictions based on the nonexistent threat of “secondhand smoke.” Weed smokers, contrariwise, are still a small enough minority to beat upon.
How does the gateway argument stretch past childhood, while we’re at it? Why can’t it be like booze, whereby the law pretends we’re minors for three years after the age of majority? Or it could be like cigarettes, with which we deal ever so more rationally. Why can’t 70 year olds, for instance, light up? Are we afraid marijuana would doom their 80s to a haze of meth abuse?
LOL!