How is smaller government and greater individual liberty "liberalization"?
and agree with those who see pot as a gateway drug far more so than booze.
"Children who use marijuana are 85 times more likely to use cocaine than non-marijuana users. Children who drink are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than non drinkers." (http://www.sarnia.com/groups/antidrug/mjcnnct/addctn.htm) No support there for "far more so."
Sticking it on a shelf is not the same as liquor.
I don't understand what this statement means.
But then we used to worry about such thing, not glamorize it.
Selling something at WalMart is "glamorizing" it?
Oh, and on the subject of gateways, keep this in mind:
“People who enjoy the effects of marijuana are, logically, more likely to be willing to try other mood-altering drugs than are people who are not willing to try marijuana or who dislike its effects. In other words, many of the factors associated with a willingness to use marijuana are, presumably, the same as those associated with a willingness to use other illicit drugs. [...] There is no evidence that marijuana serves as a stepping stone on the basis of its particular physiological effect. One might argue that marijuana is generally used before other illicit mood-altering drugs, in part, because its effects are milder; in that case, marijuana is a stepping stone only in the same sense as taking a small dose of a particular drug and then increasing that dose over time is a stepping stone to increased drug use.” - “Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base”, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences