It’s Time to Stop Calling Weed A Gateway Drug

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Year after year, teachers and faculty would round us up to sit criss-cross on the floor in a small gym for regular D.A.R.E assemblies. Drug Abuse Resistance Education uses a mixture of fact-vomiting and intimidation to persuade kids to live a drug-free life.

For years they told us that people would offer, pressure, and give away addictive, life-destroying drugs as we got older. This…