As usual, Pete Guither at DrugWarrant digs up the facts about marijuana and its comparative lack of dangers to other substances, both legal and controlled.
Noting that the Drug Czar’s blog trumpets the need to redouble its efforts (and no doubt its funding) to go after “the non medical use of prescription drugs”…
The “Gateway Theory” of marijuana prohibition goes like this: marijuana use leads to “hard drug” use, such as cocaine and heroin. Since cocaine and heroin use are “bad”, we must criminalize marijuana to keep our children (and perhaps ourselves) from becoming hard core drug addicts.
The proof of the Gateway Theory is supposed to…