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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by lisivka on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:00AM (#11326741)
My classmates, which are started to smoke marijuana in school, now are dead (I am 40 years old). They die not because of tar or something like that, but because they switched to heavy drugs.
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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by GordonS on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:41AM (#11327381)
What's your point?
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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by lisivka on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:33PM (#11333773)
It is fact from my life. 4 my classmates started to smoke in school, when they were 14 years old. Then somebody told them how to make cheap drug from papaver, which is called «shirka» there. Now they are dead.
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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by paulryanrogers on Monday March 21, 2016 @05:40PM (#11332342)
Could be the gateway argument, that smoking less harmful stuff leads to harder stuff.
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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by GordonS on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:08PM (#11332937)
An argument I would attempt to counter - the market is the gateway. The dealer you buy your illegal cannabis from often also sells 'harder' drugs, such as cocaine and heroin.
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