marigateway
marijuana is a gateway drug because anti-marijuana fervor made it so. everyone knows someone who uses marijuana. they know someone who does a lot of marijuana. with no apparent ill effects. so they try it. and discover first hand it's nowhere near as bad as the propaganda makes it out to be. a reasonable person could conclude that if you lied about marijuana then you might be lying about meth and heroin too. and try them. and uh oh. those really are as bad as advertised. but now it's too late. they dooooomed. on the other hand... prescription opiates really are gateway drugs. cause where's an addict to go when their doctor cuts them off? honestly, we'd have a much smaller social crisis if doctors prescribed marijuana instead.