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The gateway drug effect is only real in a black market where an actor will likely be pushing many different drugs. If they are all available legally, and the po
by tinix 7y ago
The gateway drug effect is only real in a black market where an actor will likely be pushing many different drugs. If they are all available legally, and the populace is educated about them, the outcome is likely to be better than the contrary, where it's illegal, and taboo.
- neuronic 7y agoExactly, places like Amsterdam where you can buy both marijuana and shrooms legally are not destroyed pits of hell either. In fact I enjoy Amsterdam a lot and it does many things much better than comparable cities in Germany. Especially catastrophically bad places like Berlin.
- TheCraiggers 7y agoThere are many cultural differences at play though. The only difference between Denver and Amsterdam is not height. The point I was trying to make in my post was there are many factors at play, but I believe gateway drug effect will be one of them.