>> the DEA said in 2016 that pot is not a gateway drug. <<
Yay, Obama! That DEA administrator who said that was Comey’s chief of staff. He is now a Trump-bashing regular contributor to the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. He came on only towards the end of 2015, so that report was probably started before him.
He was preceeded by Michelle Leonhart (administrator, 2010-Oct., 2016), who ceased enforcement proceedings against drug diversions of opiates. We all know how well that turned out! In March 2015, it was revealed DEA agents were participating in drug cartel-funded sex parties with prostitutes. She resigned 7 months later. She nominally opposed Obama’s claims that marijuana was not a gateway drug, but sharply curtailed enforcement action, allowing the proliferation of decriminalization laws.
Yay, Obama! That DEA administrator who said that was Comey’s chief of staff. He is now a Trump-bashing regular contributor to the Rachel Maddow show
Irrelevant ad hominem; the report (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/08/12/2016-17960/denial-of-petition-to-initiate-proceedings-to-reschedule-marijuana) cites plenty of scientific evidence for that statement.