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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
"Regardless of your anecdotes, the DEA said in 2016 that pot is not a gateway drug."

I don't care what a fedgov agency reports. I saw first hand pot users graduate to harder drugs. Go to any homeless encampment and ask the addicts if they started on coke, meth, or heroin first. No, they almost always started on pot or alcohol which leads to lack of ambition and the inability to function within societal norms. I feel bad for the mentally ill, but many are just bums who want no responsibility.

102 posted on 01/31/2020 9:42:53 AM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet
No, they almost always started on pot or alcohol which leads to lack of ambition and the inability to function within societal norms.

I'd be willing to bet they all started smoking cigarettes first, then moved onto other drugs, such as pot and/or booze.

103 posted on 01/31/2020 9:49:58 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: A Navy Vet; Ol' Dan Tucker
the DEA said in 2016 that pot is not a gateway drug.

I don't care what a fedgov agency reports. I saw first hand pot users graduate to harder drugs.

So if ANY pot user EVER moved on to harder drugs, pot is a gateway?

105 posted on 01/31/2020 10:58:15 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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