re: Republicans voted against decriminalizing marijuana.

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no it’s really not. Those same people also smoke cigarettes and drink. Are those gateway drugs too? No it’s that if your willing to do meth or heroin of course your going to do all sorts of other substances especially weaker ones.

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I think an argument could be made that weed is more of a gateway drug since until recently you had to go through illicit channels to get it. Those channels most likely often had the other substances available. I could see a scenario where someone started out just with weed but either got curious or talked into the more potent stuff.

I do agree with you overall though that just because someone that is a meth head happened to smoke weed at one point t does not equal weed turns you into a meth head.