^^^ Well that's probably because coke and pot don't really go well together, they are conflicting highs. As far as pot being a gateway drug, I could see it, even with my pro legalization feelings, but as you mentioned, any drug really is, legal or not.
In fact, I think it's more of a gateway drug BECAUSE it's illegal. I remember part of my reasoning being (there was many other things, and reasons, but this was one of the arguments going round my head in trying new drugs) 'well this illegal drug didn't hurt me, so this one should be safe too. If my parents and society are going to lie to me about the facts and effects of pot to me, how can they possibly know anything about all the other drugs? It's just propaganda coming from people who don't really know what they are talking about.'
Legalize marijuana and take away the mystique, and you take away some of it's argument as a gateway drug I think.
Course all of this could be fixed if parents and societal groups in general just talked to kids honestly about drugs in the first place. Not, 'one hit and you'll be in a gutter begging for money,' sort of scare tactics that some parents are guilty of and the US's war on drugs has been very guilty of.
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