Quote Originally Posted by coolslayer
Not all of them.....I doubt that LEAP is.
While I dont trust LEAP's motives, they are indeed a whole bunch of officers, lawyers, judges and others that support ending prohibition, and more specifically across the board legalization and taxation.

They are certainly not MC users and make scary bedfellows. The only thing LEAPsters and I have in common are this single shared belief. I hope no one here is fooled into thinking this is an organozation of "cool cops".

The gateway argument only works when they throw it out in propoganda and falls on simple ears. It sounds feasable, and everone knows people who started with pot and is dead from banging junk. If a person puts the info in perspective he sees that it is a type of personality that leads to addiction. Cause and effect simply cannot be proven when arguing for the "gateway theory". By this reasoning you could assume that drinking milk led to alcoholism because 100% of alcoholics drank milk before they went to beer.

People are gullible. When they hear something that makes sense to them and it rings a chord with them they believe it. They beleive it with no questioning because they heard certain words that they liked. It was a complex subject that they knew nothing about, they were a little nervous even thinking about the subject, and they werent really motivated to learn anything about it.

Someone told them that their children were at risk(..."WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?????" a woman cried from the back of the crowd) Since thay could not find any other reason to continue prohibition the invented the "Gateway Drug" and it has been the centerpiece of the prohibitionist argument since.

Alcohol is the gateway drug. it breeds addiction, addiction breeds need, and need breeds action. In 93% of all abuse, alcohol is the first addiction. In 86% of all cases alcohol is the ONLY addiction. Stoners simply do not grow up to be addicts.

Mental problems cause addiction. For prohibitionists to blame addictions on the drugs is a cop out. We need to face reality with our addictions as well as our drug policy if we are to help people and understand the chemistry of need in an addicted person. We also need to stop blaming people who smoke marijuana for the addictive behavior of a population that is intoxicated by greed and excess from birth.
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