Soldato
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If cannabis is indeed a "gateway drug", as David Sidwick would have us believe, then that is only because it's illegal and new users regard it as safe for experimentation. If it were legal then its users would not have to associate with the drug dealers who sell it and who also have other much more dangerous/addictive drugs to sell. If cannabis was sold legally by licensed establishments then there would not be other illegal drugs available there too, so the gateway argument is actually another argument for legalisation.
Yep.
The "gateway" drug argument is actually an argument to decriminalise, and possibly legalise.