Cannabis as a gateway out of the living hell known as addiction.

One major talking point of our misguided War on Drugs is the widespread notion that when teens use, or even try cannabis, it acts as a ‘gateway’, or as a semiautomatic conveyer belt, from pre-adulthood innocence to an increased risk of addiction to harder drugs such as heroin. This concept has been used for half a century to help fuel a moral panic agai…