We have all heard the theory that marijuana is the gateway drug to harsher more dangerous drugs, so I have a desire to question that theory.
1) Do you or have you ever used alcohol?
2) Do you or have you ever used any over the counter medications?
3) Have you or are you presently taking any drugs that were prescribed to you by a doctor practicing medicine? (Doctors are licensed to practice medicine, I on the other hand am not required to have a license to live, it is my right.)
If you answer yes to 1 or more of these questions I recommend you thank God, nature or whatever deity (depending on your belief) for providing us with marijuana.
It has been on this planet we call home since the beginning of time, as a species it's as old as the dirt we walk upon, and according the Genesis on this world before man ever walked the earth.
Alcohol was developed or discovered somewhere between 5,000 - 6,000 years ago.
Modern compound medicines as we know them are less than 300 years old.
These are 2006 statistics of substance deaths.
Tobacco 435,000
Alcohol 85,000
Microbial Agents 75,000
Toxic Agents 55,000
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs 32,000
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect 17,000
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin 7,600
Marijuana 0
So yes, I not only can but do consider marijuana to be the gateway drug to every manufactured product that we the superior intelligent species have developed or discovered to consume for medicinal or recreational purposes.
We as individuals are our own quality control, we should have the final say as to what extent we will tolerate the so called advances of modern times.
So who is the real criminal?
1)Those who chose to possess and use a product of nature they can grow for free in their own backyard knowing no one has ever died from consuming it.
2)Those who continue to impose and intimidate people to accept and consume manufactured products knowing that those products have been proven to result in death.
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