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Re: Why is Marijuana Illegal?
Also on that "gateway" thing, cannabis does nothing to force you into using other drugs, I think that argument was made by people looking to manipulate data. Their data showed them that people who use Class A drugs used marijuana, perhaps showing that the first "illegal" drug they tried was cannabis. The gateway effect is achieved by saying that cannabis is what led these people to using other drugs, I say if we look at it from another perspective, these people wanted to use drugs to alter the state of conciousness, they tried different drugs, starting from the "mild and safe" cannabis, and then gradually progressing to where they found the drug they want to use, that they like, their discovery route from mild to harder, to hard, merely started with the mildest of the "illegal drug" family. But the same evidence will show that these people have also already used alcohol and/or tobacco, which perhaps altered their state of mind, and they were looking for that high again in a different form (because you need more of each over time to achieve the initial effect). Thus alcohol and tobacco should be called the "gateway" drugs. This gateway effect is stupid, people would use another "illegal" substance if cannabis was nonexistent, perhaps another plant, like salvia (salvia divinorum) or mushrooms, the "gateway" effect is merely a way of manipulating data to support a propaganda point, there are no walls in the drug world, if you want, you can go and start out with LSD, nothing, literaly, nothing stops you, it just so happens that Cannabis is easier to produce in larger quantities, and at a low enough cost and higher availability it is easier and cheaper to "try" then LSD, which is not as readily available, and is hard to dose, mainly because it is hard to guess the concentration in the medium that it comes in, and the onset happens in 20-60 minutes, where marijuana is nearly instant with onset starting in less then a minute, and peaking in about 20 min, making it much easier to dose (I think erowid says something like, take 2-3 hits, wait 5-10 minutes, dont feel enough, take 2-3 hits again, and wait again). Also cannabis is much more predictable, from what i read on erowid, color can determine quality, while the level of thc in the drug will fluctuate, it wont vary as much as say mushrooms which seem to have a very unpredictable reputation...
Gateway effect is merely a way to describe a simple pattern in some data...
(BTW all the info is from Erowid here)
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