Have you smoked cannabis? Did it instantly make you wanna go out and purchase a £20 wrap of heroin off your local dealer? Because it never has for me, or anyone else i know that smokes cannabis.
The only gateway to other drugs, is the person choosing to take those drugs. If you dont want to do other stuff, dont. Simple really.
No it doesnt, as i've just proved in my post above. I know of many other cannabis smokers who would also not touch anything else.
It wasnt the weed that killed them, it was the sudden stop after the crash, the weed might have had a part in it, but it wasnt the ultimate cause.
So, why is your choice of mind altering drug any better then my choice of mind altering drug? They are both drugs, so please, in your opinion, tell me why one is ok to be legal, yet another is not?
Not going to mention all the pissed up people, fighting ect that happens on a fri/sat night? Alcohol causes far more aggro then cannabis ever has done. I mean really, when was the last time you seen a couple of stoners having a fist fight or argueing in the street, or singing at the top of their lungs at 3 am in the morning?....
Cannabis is as natural as natural can be, its normal. People have smoked it and eaten it for thousands of years. Long before a law was passed against its useage.
I wont even get into the medicinal usage of cannabis, which has worked for lots of people who are suffering various conditions.
I know that cannabis is NOT a so-called "gateway drug", because i've smoked the stuff for years, and not once have i ever felt the need to move onto something stronger.
If anything is a gateway onto stronger stuff, its the Prohibition of cannabis.
Because it is STILL illegal, people have to visit a dealer. Usually, a dealer doesnt only sell cannabis, so if someones tempted to try something else, the dealer will have it.
Remove the dodgy dealers, and you remove the temptation (If you have it, which i do not.) to try other stuff.
Just IMO.
[Edited to add] Lots of people start off drinking only alcopops, yet move onto the stronger stuff like vodka, absynth ect, do you suggest we make alcohol illegal aswell?