[Nathan Zachary]

"I don't think marijuana is as dangerous as alcohol. I know that we get tired of hearing that comparison, but it is accurate."

That may have been true back in the days of low THC pot. Pot is much stronger than it used to be, and leads more often than not to other drug use.- "Getting dragged out from smoking pot day after day? wash down this little pill with your drink...."- is more common than you think, and that's because pot has become socially acceptable, and so are other drugs, like meth. If you think teenage kids can make rational decisions, you are daydreaming. That's why many of them end up on a slab at the morgue.

[JamesP81]

If you think teenage kids can make rational decisions, you are daydreaming. That's why many of them end up on a slab at the morgue.

I'm not claiming that they can. Then again, I'm not convinced that adults are able to make rational decisions either. At some point you have to acknowledge that people can and will do stupid things, and you have to let them do them.

We don't let teenagers drink alcohol, but we let adults drink. The same rule should probably apply with pot.

[tacticalogic]

Pot is much stronger than it used to be, and leads more often than not to other drug use.

Then the stats for "other drug use" should come to more than half of the figures for pot use. If they don't someone is lying.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

:...Pot is much stronger than it used to be, and leads more often than not to other drug use..."

This dubious argument has beeen rebutted hundreds of times in FR alone!

Simply stated: Not True.

[vin-one]

NZ you must be smoking some good govt' stuff, because you quote the gov't line pretty well.
Your whole statement is strictly BS. it does not lead to harder stuff, it is no more a gateway drug than cigarette's, and the THC level is not higher the testing methods are better.