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You know [b]wolfman[/b], NOTHING in your {} rantings support the illogic of your contentions.
You deny that pot screws up brain function - yeah right, that's why potheads risk jailtime - 'cuz it DOESN'T fuck up their mental function. [/sarcasm]
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They do it for the same reason that people drink beer or take any other drug -- it feels good. As for the risk, from my own observations, the average pot smoker gets busted about once every 25 years or so. Most of them have had either one bust in their entire lives, or none at all. The jail time isn't much of a risk for most of them.
You really think it's all just temporary in its effects??? "Marginally harmful"??? What the hell is that?
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That means it doesn't have any significant negative health effects for the vast majority of the people who use it. Certainly nothing in comparison to the comparable effects of alcohol.
Then you throw out stats like "one percent" without ever showing how you arrive at that!
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Maybe I missed something. Did you provide any stats at all on the subject?
Then you try to contort what I posted into actual supporting YOUR position that pot ISN'T a gateway drug.
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Did you find anything in there that says there is some magical chemical in pot that will make people crave completely different drugs they have never had?
[b]You completely overlook the fact that [u]potsmokers DO progress onto harder drugs at a MUCH greater rate than nonpotsmokers[/u] - and [b]THAT[/b] was my whole point [red]that you immediately and orignally denied[/red]!!!! [/b][stick]
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What you seem to have missed is that any such association is not due to any property of pot. It is due to the policy on pot. Therefore, it would not be correct to say that pot is a "gateway drug" even if the correlation is shown. It would be more accurate to say that we have a "gateway drug policy" that creates an association where there was none.
The hows and whys are very muddy right now so get off your fucking high horse of denying that pot MAY have multifactorial effects surrounding it, some of which may be inherent in the drug itself, which make users much more likely to move onto harder drugs.
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No, the hows and whys are easily clear enough to determine that there is nothing inherent in the drug itself that will make people crave completely different drugs they have never had. As already stated, that's a belief in magic, not science, on the face of it.
You're actually [u]denying[/u] X without ever providing any evidence that X is indeed false. Try passing THAT off as a "logical position"
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Maybe you missed the report of the Institute of Medicine that I linked. If you want more information on related topics see http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer There are thousands of documents on drugs and the drug laws and related subjects there, and the history and development of the "gateway" urban legend is quite clear and beyond dispute.
You then come real close to calling me a "prohibitionist" wrt pot. Well that's not the case either. But your denial of what's as plain as the nose on your face makes it real hard to find common ground in our postion on this matter.
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Try taking that college course in logic and make this argument. See how fast you get flunked, even if the professor assumes that all your evidence is true. Even if the evidence for it was true, it still wouldn't make the case.