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[QUOTE="Otto'd, post: 1030661, member: 4671"]
Here we go with the gateway drug theory which is ludicrous.  Certainly hard drugs are dangerous and can kill you, but that has NOTHING to do with pot.

Addiction is a disease and certain people are genetically predisposed. They would get there with or without pot. Could be alcohol. Could be tobacco, could be prescription painkillers could be adderall prescribed to kids with add.

Let me add another thought about that stupid propaganda about pot, that CAN lead to hard drugs:
I'm 46, I came of age in early 80s , in school we were taught that pot was just as bad a drug as heroin and cocaine.   Well some us us tried pot, it is innocuous.   This creates the thought " well they lied to is about pot, they probably lied to us about the other drugs too (they didn't)  .

It's time for this country to get real. Legalize tax and treatment is the answer to that, not the war on drugs. How can anyone say after a now 40 year sample size that the war on drugs is working. It's the biggest failure in the history of this country.

In the last 40 years in the war on drugs, the drugs have become more plentiful, purities have increased and prices have plummeted.

We are making organized crime and drug cartels billionaires while creating violence in our streets.

Legalization takes ALL of that off the table and raises tax revenue for the country.

A persons position on the war on drugs has been my intelligence indicator for the last 10 years
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