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Originally posted by Greg700
Most of those studies occurred over a time span of at least several years, and failed to account for the possible effects of other drug use (like acid or PCP). People who smoke pot are also more likely to do some of the other, harder drugs, and the trends seen in the study are quite possibly due to those harder drugs, rather than the weed itself.
I think most of these studies are done with an agenda (either for or against pot) and are necessarily biased.
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Well, I can't speak for what happens in the U.S.A. but in Holland we have the coffeeshops as you will probably know. They are controlled pretty strictly by the government to make sure they don't sell hard drugs.
What happens then is that most people who smoke pot don't come into contact with a drugdealer that tries to move them on from pot to the more lucrative coke and speed. This is basically where the so called 'gateway' argument comes from. In Holland it's not valid since you don't come into contact with drugdealers if you're just a pot smoker.
Of course you can get anything you want from other sources, but that's a different 'class' of users.
Also, if Alcohol is legal. Why not legalize pot? Alcohol is much more damaging than Cocaine for instance.