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To: Ol' Sparky

No, creates a lot of problems — more losers getting high and harming others, more drug trafficking and usage as marijuana is a gateway drug

Wrong! It is pharmaco;ogically not a gateway drug. “wow, man, I’m laid back from that doobie—oh, wait a minute, Let’s do some coke to rev up!” You sound like a DEA agent. It’s only gateway in the sense that it is usually in the same place in the black market.


37 posted on 03/25/2010 4:50:54 PM PDT by GeezerConservative
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To: GeezerConservative
You sound like a DEA agent.

And, you sound like Barney Frank and Joycelyn Elders.

There isn't any question marijuana is a gateway drug:

http://www.marijuanaaddictiontreatment.org/statistics-facts.html

Cocaine: 62 percent of adults who had used marijuana before the age of 15 have used cocaine at some point during their lives. For those who had never used marijuana, that number is 0.6 percent.

Heroin: Those who use marijuana in youth are more likely to use heroin. That number is 9 percent as compared to 0.1 percent for those who had never used marijuana.

Psychotherapeutic drugs: 53.9 percent of those who used marijuana before the age of 15 report that they have also tried to use psychotherapeutic drugs for non-medical uses. The rate for those who have not used marijuana is 5.1 percent.

104 posted on 03/25/2010 7:17:44 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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