So I guess I will be the first (and maybe only one) to disagree- Pot is a gateway drug my friend. As cheesy as that may sound, it is proven. I would rather have an alcoholic living next door to me than a meth head or crack addict.
Pot is a gateway drug simply because it's currently assigned the culture of more severe drugs. It exists in a black market sub-culture where the only way to buy it freely is from people who have associations with harder drugs. It's not a gateway drug because it gets you high. It's a gateway drug because of the people you're getting high around. If people were buying pot at a gas station counter, I think it'd be different.
Also, a few important things: 1) People who currently use hard drugs are probably going to use hard drugs no matter the legality of pot. 2) People are going to be smoking pot anyway, so it's not like we're increasing the likelihood of meth users next door. The only people who would START smoking dope simply because it was legalized are the kind of boy scouts who weren't smoking simply because it was illegal--the kind of boy scouts who won't shoot smack, probably. 3) I'd almost bet my bottom dollar that before a heroin user used smack, before a meth user picked their face, before either one of those people got stoned, they got drunk. Gateway drugs exist for personalities headed that way anyhow. Booze isn't *considered* a gateway drug because it lives in a different culture than the others. Move pot that way, and it does the same thing. In the end, though, it's not about the drug, it's about the person.
I don't smoke pot (anymore), and I don't plan on starting if it's legalized. But it simply doesn't make sense not to legalize it. The gateway hooey is largely taboo, and if indeed there's scientific proof (beyond the fact that a heroin user--surprise--smoke pot first), then I doubt there'd be a statistical increased in tweakers, meth heads and thieving drug-scumming bums.
I quit booze for 2009 and it's been an amazing year so far. No hangovers--not even a mild wine headache. BOOM.
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I semi-agree with you regarding your comment that the under-35 set broadly agrees that its silly not to legalize pot. But why not the over-35 set? What about the hippie generation? And what about all those movies I watched regarding the 70's? Are we doomed by a perpetual cycle of idealism being overcome by a more conservative outlook as we get older?
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