What about the argument that Marijuana is a 'gateway' drug that leads kids to harder stuff?
If deaths and long term damage are your criteria for criminalizing drugs, then shouldn't cocaine and meth be taken off the list and replaced by alcohol and nicotene which cause untold more deaths and long term damage?
"What about the argument that Marijuana is a 'gateway' drug that leads kids to harder stuff?"
That argument is a correlation argument. For example, "Ninety percent of heroin addicts have a marijuana history. Therefore, it is safe to say that marijuana is a 'gateway' to heroin addiction."
Sounds acceptable, at first hearing? Only if you are a deck crewman on a carrier during launch time.
Here's another version of that first argument, " Nearly 100% of heroin addicts have a milk history."
Still think that correlation argument sounds acceptable?