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Is Weed a Gateway Drug? Marijuana Experts Battle Over Legalization and What It Means for America

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 06/03/2015 - 08:00

When it comes to the often intense debate over marijuana legalization, one side maintains that the drug is entirely benign and holds the power to bring in millions in tax revenue, while the other warns that there will be profound social costs for the states that have decriminalized it.

As the debate forges on, all eyes are on states like Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, where recreational legalization is afoot, with proponents and opponents, alike, seizing upon the issue in an effort to sway the political winds in their favored direction.

But which side is presenting an accurate cost-benefit analysis? And how do individual rights play into the debate?

Morgan Fox, communications manager at the Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-pot legalization group, and Dave Evans, an adviser to the Drug Free American Foundation, both recently sat down with The Church Boys to explain their stances....

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