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Originally Posted by Riddle  I wrote a paper last semester for my composition class about why I beleive marijuana should be legalized. Throughout my research for the paper, I found out that for every 104 marijuana smokers, only 1 will move on to harder drugs. When less than 1 percent of smokers move on, I find it very difficult to buy into the gate way idea. Plus I beleive that if it were not for the fact that most marijuana smokers have to buy it over a black market, even less of them would ever even be propositioned to try harder drugs. |
I couldn't agree more. I would say the only reasons any pot smokers really move on to anything like heroin is because pot has been grouped in with those drugs and made illegal, making pot smokers become involved with the black market where everything else is sold as well. I mean if pot were legal people would grow plants in their backyards. Nobody would have to meet scruffy Joe(who also sells coke and heroin) behind a Jack In The Box just to buy some herb.
I think the war on drugs causes more problems than it tries to fix.
p.s: and get real man. that website has more misguided "facts" than anything i've read in a long time.