I hope not. I am dead-set against legalizing marijuana, especially because I lost a cousin from a heroin addiction.
I won't pretend to be sorry about your loss, but I assume it was hard. With this fake sentimentality out of the way, I would like to inform you that what I quoted makes absolutely no sense to most everyone who just read it. Are you really comparing marijuana with heroin? Are you high?
No, it actually never has.
It's been proven that marijuana use is a gateway to using other drugs.
No it hasn't. The data ranges from inconclusive to being against gateway theory.
If there is a gateway affect, I'd posit it has more to do with drug pushers - they are interested in getting people to buy more expensive and addictive drugs. If you legalize pot, then people can buy it from legal stores that won't be pushing heroin and other harder drugs.
My cousin who died from heroin addiction said that marijuana was a gateway drug (granted, he never used it, but as someone who was a drug addict, he should've known something about it.) My grandma also worked as a nurse in mental health for many years and also said that it was a gateway drug. And don't forget the countless hippies who graduated from pot to LSD in the 60s/early 70s. The research can say whatever it wants, but you can always get research to say just about anything. Where are these studies anyway?
