Re-look at the meaning of “gateway” in the clinical analysis.
Booze is along for the ride with the “gateway” psychoactive THC component of pot— the receptors for booze are NOT the same ones that have to be satisfied in the brain and in the peripheral areas of a devotee.
Lessens inhibitions, booze does— and thus lessens any self discipline to NOT continue to “toke up”. Booze is merely a fellow traveler in this analysis. And, booze on it’s on is incredibly destructive to Society in general— but Carry Nation and puritanical legal stops would never prevent something that people can MAKE on their own.
Even the American Indians reserved tobacco for religious ceremony— but thanks to our Colonial rulers— the cash demand for tobacco in UK and Europe converted a simple religious plant into a hugely addictive and destructive... industry. Brilliant.
“Even the American Indians reserved tobacco for religious ceremony”
They did the same with Peyote and, from what I understand, Cannabis as well.
Leave it to the white man... /s
People can't grow pot?