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Originally Posted by Jords

If it were legalised, more people would give it a go, and those with the addictive personalities would move onto stronger drugs.

Who says? Local Dutch teens are amongst the lowest consumers in Europe and it's virtually legal there.

The gateway drug argument is B.S. too. It's because of the fact that it's illegal that you have to go to a drug dealer and possibly get offered other stuff.

The gateway drug argument has long been a basless fabrication of the prohibitionists. There's nothing factual or scientific behind it.