As far as a gsteway drug. Any truth to that deals more with the types of people who engage in selling illicit substance, and less with people askung for them after smoking pot.

If the feds reclassified cannabis it would be left up to the state how they wanted to treat it. In sure just like with alcohol and prohibition. There will be "dry" countries/ states.

Also hemp would produce so many goods uncluding paper, clothes, and ect. It grows and can be cultivated much faster than trees. It's goid for the environment. People generally tend to act much calmer when compared to alcohol. It has honest clinical uses.

It would take the wind right out of their sails.