Mitt Romney Romney Insists Marijuana Is a Gateway Drug

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Romney Insists Marijuana Is a Gateway Drug

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday lashed out at a reporter who asked him tough questions about same sex marriage, immigration and marijuana.

"Aren't there issues of significance that you'd like to talk about?" Romney quipped to CBS 4 reporter Shaun Boyd. "The economy -- the economy -- the economy, the growth of jobs, the need to put people back to work. The challenges of Iran. We've got enormous issues that we face. But, go ahead. You want to talk about medical marijuana."

"I think marijuana should not be legal in this country," the former Massachusetts governor opined. "I believe it's a gateway drug to other drug violations. The use of illegal drugs in this country is leading to terrible consequences in places like Mexico and actually in our own country. I oppose legalization of marijuana. I oppose legalization of other kinds of drugs."

Research has repeatedly shown that the so-called "gateway effect" of marijuana is negligible.

A 2010 study from the University of New Hampshire found that the use of harder illicit drugs had more to do with life factors like stress and employment status. Young people who had diminished stress over employment were less likely to use marijuana and other illegal drugs.

"Employment in young adulthood can protect people by 'closing' the marijuana gateway, so over-criminalizing youth marijuana use might create more serious problems if it interferes with later employment opportunities," study author Karen Van Gundy explained.

The problem with the "gateway effect" theory is that "correlation isn’t cause," Time's Maia Szalavitz wrote in 2012.

"Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang members are probably more [than] 104 times more likely to have ridden a bicycle as a kid than those who don’t become Hell’s Angels, but that doesn’t mean that riding a two-wheeler is a 'gateway' to joining a motorcycle gang," she noted. "It simply means that most people ride bikes and the kind of people who don’t are highly unlikely to ever ride a motorcycle."

Romney also repeated his position that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

"My position on gay marriage is the same that it's been, well, from the beginning. And that is marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman," he said. "That the posture I had as governor and I have that today."

"If a civil union is identical to marriage other than with the name, why, I don't support that," he continued. "But I certainly recognize that hospital visitation rights and benefits of that nature may well be appropriate and states are able to make a provision for a determination for those kinds of rights as well as benefits that might accrue to state workers. My position is the same that it's been from the beginning, which is that I don't favor a civil union if it's identical to marriage. And I don't favor marriage between people of the same gender."

"I know people have differing views," Romney admitted at an event in Oklahoma on Wednesday after President Barack Obama announce his support for marriage equality. "This is a very tender and sensitive topic, as are many social issues."

The candidate also told Boyd that he was against states creating lower in-state tuition rates for children who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.

"No. My view is that to receive in-state college tuition, a person should be a legal resident of the United States," he said.

Colorado is considering a measure that would allow undocumented students to pay a special in-state tuition rate that is lower that out-of-state tuition but higher that in-state rates for legal residents.

(h/t: Talking Points Memo)
 
Who the heck cares if it's a 'gateway drug'? It's none of your damn business, you god damned yenta!

That's Jewish for "GTFO!"
 
It has been clear to me for a long time that the majority of heroin addicts ate breakfast cereal as a child and nearly always had milk with their cereal... so clearly it is milk that is the gateway to pot that is the gateway to heroin. Milk is the true enemy... milk leads to heroin addiction.

DUCY
 
"I have a drinking problem? F**k you Peck your a mormon! Next to you we all have a drinking problem!" (Skip to 1:20 if you want)


I'm not mormon bashing but you have to admit this quote is as hilarious as is is true. Great movie on gov efficiency.
 
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This is Mitt's Mormonism coming out as policy. In Mormonism, there is called "The Word Of Wisdom", where God is supposedly telling you not to ingest tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, and illegal drugs.

It's definitely not Biblical, and its definitely not conducive to personal liberty.
 
AND IRAQ IS A GATEWAY DRUG TO IRAN


keep preaching that violence "morman"...

piece of shit
 
I think marijuana should not be legal in this country," the former Massachusetts governor opined. "I believe it's a gateway drug to other drug violations.
Hard drug addicts go down when you decriminilaize ALL drugs, when combined with a treatment program.
Portugal has reduced the number of hard drug addicts by half in 10 years.

But marijuana is a gateway drug. Lord knows I tried other things after I tried marijuana. Didn't like them as much, but that isn't the point.
The point is this:
When your argument against marijuana is a gigantic pile of outright fucking lies, people only need to smoke it once to figure out you're lying, and then anything you say about other drugs is immediately suspect.

I tried acid and shrooms because they lied about pot and they lied about booze, so they couldn't have been right about other drugs.
I never tried crack, because there were other people speaking ill of it: the people who lived with it. Their opinion was trustworthy.
If the state hadn't so obviously lied about pot, I may never have tried acid.
So the gateway isn't the drug itself, it's the lies they tell about it.

So keep on lying, Mittens. Let's see how lying works out for ya in the end.
 
I wish someone would ask him what part of the Constitution gives the federal government the authority to ban marijuana. That's the real issue at the federal level.
 
It's a totally stupid statement, but lot of people will vote for him. It is like they are stuck in the 20th century without Internet access.
 
Hey Romney, what about Kosher Kush? Since you're very fond of Jews, I assume you wont mind if I light up a smoke with my Jewish Orthodox pals? ;)
 
This is Mitt's Mormonism coming out as policy. In Mormonism, there is called "The Word Of Wisdom", where God is supposedly telling you not to ingest tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, and illegal drugs.

It's definitely not Biblical, and its definitely not conducive to personal liberty.

There was no such thing as "illegal drugs" when the word of wisdom was written.

D&C 89

10 And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—

11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with prudence and thanksgiving.

Some mormons ingest herb but not alcohol, though the church does not advocate that position at all.

Prophets of the church have said that illegal drugs should not be used.

Although I have also heard some Bishops in the church tell individual members that they can use cannabis as medicine if it is done legally and if it isn't abused.
 
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