This is what I put on my blog on facebook when someone said MJ leads to harder drugs. Made me furious. Thus, it can be proven, coffee leads to stronger drugs. I referred to alcohol. I want names. How many were your kin?
How many were good friends? Predict ahead of time. Do you think there a noticeable difference or not? Lastly the reason I am for the legalization of Marijuana is related again to alcohol. I feel this way in that many people I know personally would RATHER smoke, but are forced to drink alcohol in lieu of smoking pot so they can keep their jobs when random drug tests are given.
Nancy Rutland. Want to know the gateway drug? I tell you,is the Pacifier. And is hard to leave it. Toddlers cry for one. As we all know, the forces of international socialist corporatism have used the most awesome forces against the minds of the men of the west. One of those forces is television. With the direct action of seeding the lands with a plant of nature, to the lobbying efforts of NORML, we all have our part in the greater effort of saving mankind from the scourge of atheism, and beurocratic communism that international effort to create the perfected man, as inspired by the god of human reason, Lucifer.
The time is ripe. Do you support your local grower? Are you telling the enthusists about the effort? About its benefits? Have you lobbied your local politicos? I think the California model is reasonable.
Earlier this week I wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post opposing drug legalization. Some responses to Klein follow: 1. He also seems to infer that marijuana is addictive. Most of these arguments seem ridiculous to anyone who has inhaled. Marijuana is much more potent than in the past. In the s, marijuana was at most percent tetrahydrocanabinol, or THC.
Recent Drug Enforcement Agency seizures were percent. In Colorado and California, the marijuana dispensaries go as high as percent or more. Heavy use of marijuana does adversely affect brain development in the young. And the vast majority of people who are addicted to harder drugs start by using marijuana. Does this mean that everyone who uses marijuana will become addicted to drugs like heroin and cocaine? Of course not. But it does mean that most of those who are addicted to cocaine and heroin started out by using marijuana.
This hardly seems coincidental. Under legalization, the pool of those exposed to marijuana will certainly increase by a significant factor; and the result will be that the number of those at considerable risk of moving to addiction on heroin or cocaine likewise grows. Government surveys found that of those age 12 and above, More than 20 million of these people suffered from dependence or abuse: What can we reasonably expect the drug problem to look like if we increase the number of illicit drug users to, say, million?
You will get significantly more addiction—and significantly more shattered lives. See Figure 1 from this article by Drs. Herb Kleber and Robert DuPont. On the flip side, treating drugs as unlawful acts as a deterrent, which is one reason we criminalize behavior in the first place. Many legalizers assume that past efforts to reduce drug use have been failures.
But the assumption is flawed. Under his strong leadership, we saw substantial decreases in overall drug use, adolescent drug use, occasional and frequent cocaine use, and drug-related medical emergencies. Student attitudes toward drug use hardened. John Walters, who was President George W. Anti-drug policies have shown far more success than, to take just one example, gun control laws.
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