Quote Originally Posted by LIPTAKE2
Theres nothing in cannabis that makes you want or crave other harder drugs. It doesnt have chemicals in it that make you want other drugs. Theres no link, it's not a gateway drug. University of pittsburgh did a 12 year study into it. Non biased.

The only gateway part of any drug is the people involved with that drug. Drugs dont talk to you and convince you to try them. The dealers do. They want money. They offer, you accept... bang, you've moved onto harder stuff because you went to buy cannabis... but weed didnt make you do it, the dealer did.

If it was legal and there were no dealers, people wouldnt be offered harder stuff etcetc.

Dealers are the problem, not the plant matter which we all love.
For real. People just have to open their eyes somehow. I think times are even more interesting with spice being added to the equation. Because of keeping cannabis illegal, they allowed a research chemical to be packaged in a way that appeals to people that want to smoke, but worry that they can't for fear of the drug test. They acetone-bathe JWH into whatever herbs they muster, then sell it at gas stations and stuff.

The question is, why couldn't they have just done with cannabis in the first place. Granted, spice will be illegal within the next year or two, but the fact is that there are now drugs that are known that can produce a similar highs as cannabis but more unknown/potentially dangerous side effects. It makes no sense to keep cannabis illegal, especially when the general public desires it to the point that they are willing to risk their health on an unknown because they miss a cannabis high so much. No matter what anyone says, cannabis is the "devil" we know and there is far enough information to prove it's safe enough to sell to the general public with the same restrictions alcohol currently has.

And hey, it's the NIH themselves that produced the study that debunked the gateway theory. The only thing keeping cannabis illegal now is simply prejudice from a powerful pocket of society that want to make money off someone suffering from being entangled in the legal system.