I dont pay too much attention to those who advocate legalisation of drugs, Most of them are already using pot and some the hard stuff. Of course they want it legalised.
I mostly feel sorry for them. Drug users are pathetic creatures trying to find something in the drug high they cant get from real life. All users say they can stop anytime they want, Some even believe it. They say Pot isnt addictive, then they break the law and take a chance of being arrested to use it.
More ad-hominem attacks.
I was hoping for an honest discussion on drugs for a change, but that just vaporized. With arguments such as these, it's no wonder why those who favor the current corrupt government-backed anti-drug policy are routinely discredited here on FR.
The thing about marijuana is that it IS a gateway drug, despite what those who smoke and ingest it will not (or are unable to) admit. It's a gateway drug in that it requires a drug (and almost always, as in 99.9% of the time) and narcotics drug network inorder to even exist as a commodity.
The only exceptions to that are when some lone individuals grow marijuana in their basements or back forty and sell it to their neighbors. But, realistically, that never remains that simple and next their neighbors are bringing in the guys from two states away who also want to purchase and the next thing you know, network is involved and it's no longer just a case of some lone individuals growing the dope in the back forty and basements but an entire operation that larger networks will become a part of, if not own and command.
Marijuana IS a gateway drug in the sense that it either requires or establishes a narcotics network to gain and maintain commodity status, and, I've yet to EVER encounter or read about anyone who "just uses marijuana." They either include other drugs over time or they use far more marijuana along with other drugs over time.
It's a gateway drug and everyone who is realistic about it admits that. There was a guy in Colorado who worked as a waiter and owned his own home and went home every year to "visit his parents in Mexico," where he was from, who also stored bales of marijuana along with the later pounds of cocaine in his unfinished, dirtbottom basement in that new, fine house in suburban Colorado, and then in his spare time he had groups of other Mexicans all congregate in his new home for "English lessons" where they'd leave the lessons each week with a heavier bag than what they'd had when they arrived.
All, freshly scrubbed and employed in the homes of others, cooking meals, cleaning homes and selling marijuana and cocaine straight out of a Mexican drug cartel, right into that fine, nice, new Colorado suburban neighborhood.
What about alcohol? It was illegal, kills way more poeple, is way more debilitating. And then there's tobacco in the same boat as alcohol.
Make them all illegal, or all legal, you can't have it both ways and remain intellectually honest.
The ONLY reason for hemp's being illegal, was for Dupont's benefit in re-equipping the Navy with nylon.
It's the same mechanism that the pharmas use to squash natural medicines and suppliments - outright protectionism by force of Govt regulation. The FDA is a joke and anti-free market.
A cow could eat pot, and not be bothered. Why not a "free" human being?