Do you support banning for adults and children the gateway drugs alcohol and tobacco?
The question in this thread about marijuana is:
Do you support throwing gasoline on fire by legalizing marijuana?
I know there is no 'fire':
"The primary basis for this 'gateway hypothesis' is a recent report by the center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), claiming that marijuana users are 85 times more likely than non-marijuana users to try cocaine. This figure, using data from NIDA's 1991 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, is close to being meaningless. It was calculated by dividing the proportion of marijuana users who have ever used cocaine (17%) by the proportion of cocaine users who have never used marijuana (.2%)." - "The Myth of Marijuana's Gateway Effect" by John P. Morgan, M.D. and Lynn Zimmer, Ph.D.
“Because it is the most widely used illicit drug, marijuana is predictably the first illicit drug most people encounter [...] because underage smoking and alcohol use typically precede marijuana use, marijuana is not the most common and is rarely the first ‘gateway’ to illicit drug use. There is no conclusive evidence that the drug effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent abuse of other illicit drugs.” [...] an alternative gateway may just be the trials and tribulations some kids face while growing up. “Whether marijuana smokers go on to use other illicit drugs depends more on social factors like being exposed to stress and being unemployed — not so much whether they smoked a joint in the eighth grade,” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3195093/posts
The other question is:
Since you believe there is a fire, do you support removing oxygen from the fire by banning for adults and children the gateway drugs alcohol and tobacco?