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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Radical Rant: Marijuana, The Gateway to Harm Reduction 🌿Radical Rant: Marijuana, The Gateway to Harm Reduction
Remember the “Gateway Theory” about marijuana? It’s still bullshit. In fact, marijuana is actually the gateway to harm reduction.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine declared that “There is no conclusive evidence that the drug effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent abuse of other illicit drugs.” The scientists found that while “marijuana use typically precedes” other illicit drug use, that’s only because “patterns in progression of drug use from adolescence to adulthood are strikingly regular.” Marijuana’s only considered the “gateway” because it’s the first illegal drug most people try, as “most drug users begin with alcohol and nicotine before marijuana.”
In other words, tequila’s not considered a gateway drug because nobody’s also selling cocaine on the liquor store shelf. That science hasn’t made it to the ears of politicians, though.
Most recently, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the New York Times, “I don’t oppose...
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