Current Events > Joe Biden still questioning whether marijuana is a gateway drug

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https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-marijuana-gateway-drug-but-research-doesnt-support-that-2019-11

Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic hopeful Joe Biden doubled down on his reserved stance over legalizing marijuana and said his questions over its status as a gateway drug hold him back from supporting legalization.
Biden was speaking at a Las Vegas town hall when he claimed that "there's not nearly been enough evidence" to confirm if marijuana isn't a gateway drug, which he would need before legalizing it nationwide.

"The truth of the matter is, there's not nearly been enough evidence that has been acquired as to whether or not it is a gateway drug," Biden said. "It's a debate, and I want a lot more before I legalize it nationally. I want to make sure we know a lot more about the science behind it."

Though he wouldn't overturn federal law right away, Biden said he thinks "states should be able to make a judgment to legalize marijuana."

He added that he also supports medical marijuana and possession of the substance "should not be a crime."
Biden's most recent comments are a much softer approach than how he spent his 40-year career in the Senate, much of which overlapped with the government's war on drugs, specifically in designing harsh criminal penalties for nonviolent drug users.
His campaign has since said in announcing a massive criminal justice reform plan that included decriminalizing marijuana, that he was aiming to cut down on rates of incarceration and fix "the racial, gender, and income-based disparities in the system." He also said in a June campaign speech that he supported expunging past convictions for possession.
Despite his priorities in marijuana-related prosecution and incarceration, Biden again stopped short of backing policy for recreational marijuana but called for increasing the amount of scientific research into the drug.
"It is not irrational to do more scientific investigation to determine, which we have not done significantly enough, whether or not there are any things that relate to whether it's a gateway drug or not," Biden said.

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Get his boomer ass out
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxI01IiwMw
Legalize the ganja
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He's not questioning. He's saying it is, just not out loud.

"Let's wait and see" usually means "Do nothing and hope people forget about it".
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get these crusty old geriatrics outta here
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It is

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"The truth of the matter is, there's not nearly been enough evidence that has been acquired as to whether or not it is a gateway drug," Biden said.

That's a funny way of saying "I have no actual evidence it's a gateway drug, but I'm going to claim it is anyway no matter what evidence exists to the contrary."
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If it is it's specifically because it's illegal

"Let's say it is until someone can convince me it isn't, which they can't because I'm a stubborn old mule"

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What's the legal definition of gateway drug?
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Appealing to the suburban soccer moms, I see

That's just the painkillers talking
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It's not but there's alot of people (I was one of them) in the late 90s early 00s who couldn't really function without being high. If I wasn't high I was pissed off. I broke the cycle a long time ago and have been drug free ever since. Somebody smoking weed isn't going to be BAM, heroin addict overnight. It all depends on someone's character if the try other, harder drugs. Lucky for me I was mainly a downer guy, I had tried other stuff but I hated the way it made me feel.
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wormwyrmwyvern posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxI01IiwMw
Legalize the ganja

it is downright eerie how accurately this represents the situation at hand O_O
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Antifar posted...

Biden said he thinks "states should be able to make a judgment to legalize marijuana."

He added that he also supports medical marijuana and possession of the substance "should not be a crime."

joe "good enough" biden
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It's a Dell drug
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maybe Joe is speaking from personal experience. maybe he knew somebody who went from smoking weed to attending partisan coke parties
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Marijuana being decriminalized is the best thing for people. It being legal is great for the government because it makes them $
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What evidence would possibly sway him at this point
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Gateway to the presidency if anything
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Marijuana being decriminalized is the best thing for people. It being legal is great for the government because it makes them $

although I understand why, I hate that citizens have to actually consider Uncle Sam's cut any time we want to do something that benefits mankind, period.

that's some gangster shit right there.
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Is it 2006
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ledbowman posted...

Is it 2006

that's no excuse because this came out in 2006, too
https://youtu.be/NMvb8BZv5zY

Joe knows what he's doing here. that's why he's gonna fail.
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Of course it's a gateway drug. Buying illegal drugs brings you into circles with more illegal drugs. The best way to STOP marijuana from being a gateway drug is to make it legal. It's far overdue.
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Fuparulez posted...

Of course it's a gateway drug. Buying illegal drugs brings you into circles with more illegal drugs. The best way to STOP marijuana from being a gateway drug is to make it legal. It's far overdue.

I agree meth too

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Can he just stop saying "the fact/truth of the matter is" every other sentence? Nothing that he ever says after that line is actually a fact or truth.
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bkkorps posted...

Can he just stop saying "the fact/truth of the matter is" every other sentence? Nothing that he ever says after that line is actually a fact or truth.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

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Go to a rehab center and ask if anyone there has ever smoked marijuana. 99% will say yes.
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Yeah theres not been any research done because of the feds insane classification of it, fucking Boomer Biden.

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I still can't understand who this guy thinks is going to vote for him. Republicans from the year 1998? He literally holds the viewset of no one in the year 2019.
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Biden's older than boomers. He's a silenter.
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Fuparulez posted...

Of course it's a gateway drug. Buying illegal drugs brings you into circles with more illegal drugs. The best way to STOP marijuana from being a gateway drug is to make it legal. It's far overdue.

I'd say that alcohol or prescription drugs are more of a gateway drug than marijuana.

I drank for quite a few years before I even tried marijuana, and I didn't even find marijuana fun until age 20-21, when I had been drinking since 16.

Prescription amphetamines lead me to meth use over the course of multiple years, especially when I found how much adderall sold for on campus compared to how much meth was (which would be 1/10th of how much I sold my script for and last longer).

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Fuparulez posted...

Of course it's a gateway drug. Buying illegal drugs brings you into circles with more illegal drugs. The best way to STOP marijuana from being a gateway drug is to make it legal. It's far overdue.

But tobacco and alcohol are legal and they're gateway drugs.
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