[BelfryJustice]

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I would love to see the data to support this!  I have done some reading on this subject and don't agree with your welfare statement.  I know more people that are addicted to alcohol on the draw then pot.  I just wonder who you trust.  Last time I checked GOD made pot and man made alcohol.
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Actually, beer is derived from hops. Seeing as hops is a plant, I'm pretty sure that "God" made plants, so hypothetically by your theory God made beer. Also, as pointed out in an earlier post, marijuana is a gateway drug. Allow me to break gateway down for you, it means that it would open the figurative "gate" to other, "worse" drugs. These drugs could take the most motivated, hard-working person in the universe and bring them down to the least motivated person in the universe. In turn, that would lead them to look for excuses to shy away from employment, and lo and behold, welfare, or "the draw", is an adequate excuse if they can find a way to make it seem that they are disabled. In defense of blackcat_student's statement, I simply believe he was making an indirect analogy implying that there is no future in drug use, and I'm not willing to argue against his point. I don't have any research or evidence to back this up, I'm simply observing the fact that most drug addicts that I've ever seen aren't exactly what one would call financially stable. Again, no statistics, just a lot of logic.   :thumpsup:
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The funny thing is that most start with alcohol first.  So could it be the real gateway drug?  Pot is natural from God.  Man has to alter God's creation to make beer!  That is what I was saying.
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I'd love to see your data for alcohol being the "gateway drug".
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It was in the form of a question.  You need to pay more attention to detail.  I know that I started using alcohol at a very young age and the people that I used it with introduced me to the pot.  You can take that any way you want.