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To own guns is legal and a right.
To make home made wine and spirits is legal ( in many states).
To grow tobacco is legal.
Most people do not make home made products, like wine or grow tobacco.
However the harm to the body by both is clear when abused.
My take whether popular or not is "WEED" falls right under many growing and creation guidelines.
I see no reason "weed" should be part of the drug war as like Tobacco and wine also serve other benefits
just like "weed" does.
Is Marijuana a gate way drug? It is about as gateway as playing Yahtzee is to being addicted to playing craps at the casino .
You will always find people who will abuse and misuse what they have be it guns, wine or cars. Laws should be in place for the laws broken, not the item they used to do something with thats about as stupid as it gets. It like hey lets build a fence to keep illegals out, but only built it part way then blame everyone else when they get in WHAT ????
Rant Over !
I'm with until the Yahtzee comparison. People DO NOT snort cocaine before smoking a joint. It simply does not happen. Well, I'm sure in the history of the world it has happened, but I would venture the numbers are something like 10 million people that smoke pot first, to every one person that snorted coke first. People try pot when they are in their teens(generally). They then move up to "heavy" drugs when the excitement of the pot wears off. Most kids are apprehensive about drugs, even if they want to do it and that is why something "soft" is what is started with, to work your way up. It's a very simple process. Sort of like how raging alcoholics don't start out like the movie "Leaving Las Vegas". They have to develop a taste for the intoxication before they possess the need to down 3/4 of a bottle of vodka at 6am.
People have a hard time admitting that something so harmless can lead to other things. I never would have put ANYTHING up my nose or in my arm when I was 16. By the time I was 21, the novelty of pot wore off and it was time to move on.
I am responsible for me and mine. You are responsible for you and yours. I would never arm my son with anything but the truth so that he may make truly educated decisions when it is time. Telling him that pot won't lead anywhere and waiting for bad bubblegum to happen would be doing him a disservice. I will concede that pills can take the place of pot as that gateway drug in today's world. Kids need an apparently "soft" drug that seems harmless to open the door to "hard" stuff. Think of the term "downward spiral". Everything has a starting point.