But that's what I don't understand. How can Alcohol and Tobacco not be considered gate-way drugs? Clearly both have astronomically higher potentials to be addictive.

I think the time is ripening for marijuana legalization. People are learning after years of propaganda that marijuana is nowhere NEAR as bad as it was reported. Remember when the government pushed those "marijuana funds terrorism" ads? That got blasted off the air so fast it wasn't even funny. Except it was =)

The marijuana movement needs a "noble" cause to fuel it. As it stands people just think we want the government to provide us with drugs, when all we really want is to stop being cuffed, court-fined, and criminally charged for giggling and eating Doritos.