Answering the Libertarian argument for drug legalization

[AceArcher]

Originally Posted by Clampy

Ha ha. That's the only thing it's a gateway to. Doritos.

Let me play devils advocate here and tell you why weed is possibly a gateway drug. Currently you have to purchase weed from a dealer / gang member / addict. Even though weed itself is documented to be a non addictive drug by Both the Institute of Medicine, and the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, It's the very fact that you need to purchase it on the black market that makes it a gateway. The people who sell it there, have it in there best interest to "give" free samples out to weed users of other "hard" drugs. Once hooked on them.....

So legalization, control, and regulation would effectively remove any chance that any "soft" drug use could lead to "hard" drug use.

But i have no doubt that Dorito use would at a minimum double.