Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Biden Says Marijuana Might Be A Gateway Drug [View all]Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Can we please be allowed to recover from decades of hysterical propaganda that had a basis in racist and corporate interests?
Really. Gateway is an invention to vilify a substance, generally speaking. There are far more factors involved in a person's involvement and progression into heavy drugs and addiction. I mean, Big Phrama can be called an ultimate, institutionalized gateway if you want to go down that route.
And, as many ask, how is criminalization any kind of solution, anyway? So, a culture vilifies a substance and then ruins your entire life and affects your family, etc., in a profoundly disruptive and destructive way, "for your own good?" That's really regressive thinking and Mr. Biden should get a handle on where we are at now. We are still paying the costs of a drug war that is on the people more than it is on the substances and that's backwards and hazardous to our society.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided