pot being a gateway drug can be a big arguement if you ask me. You scientifically cannot get addicted to pot physically, its only a mental addiction. Even then, its HARD to get addicted to it unless you do it EVERYDAY. i used to do it EVERYDAY every chance i had, but i stopped. I even tried harder drugs....not cuz of pot, but cuz i wanted to feel the experience that it would give me. It had nothing to do with pot. The only reason it can probably be considered a gateway drug is because of the people that revolve around it. Usually people that do harder drugs smoke pot as well and if a person who has never done harder drugs meets that person that does, and the person that does the hard stuff asks if they want to try stuff like coke, ice, meth, etc. then they might, its all about peer pessure, the thought of being cool. Pot is not a bad thing. Its not legalized because of that dueschebag in congress a long time ago and cuz it infact in no way can be taxed. If it was taxed there would still be people selling it outside of stores for a low price and people would go to that. either that or they would start just growing it and have it free. The government honestly is stupid for this whole "war on drugs" especially when it involves pot. I can understand harder ****. but the amount of money that they throw in to fund that, they could be using it for a hell of a lot better things. What astonishes me is people that get arrest or having it on them and what not, can get bigger sentences then people that do worse crimes.

All in all it can have something to do with religion....The country we live in is a country base on ****ing religion. regardless whether or not we believe it. separation of church and state is not there anymore. If big religious figures that influence the government dont want something. then they will have their wish