One of the most common arguments I hear against liberalizing our marijuana laws is that marijuana use leads people to use harder drugs like methamphetamine or heroin. The problem with this argument is that it is based mainly on myth and confusion; not backed up by real science.
The gateway theory for marijuana has been around [...]

One of the most common arguments I hear about marijuana is that if it is legal more people are going to use it, which is an understandable belief. The problem is there isn’t any evidence to support this claim, especially considering countries with looser drug laws tend to have lower drug usage rates [previous WHO [...]