What we've done here in America is we've made intoxication, as I said in the Message of the Day, attractive.. Think of all these celebrities who extol the virtues of getting high. 

How many Watters' Worlds did I do where we sent Jesse out to Colorado and Washington state. Well yes, there's a big difference between marijuana and heroin or wine and marijuana. We know the alcohol addiction in this country, it stands about 10 percent of the population. It's horrendous. And the country tried through prohibition, failed, couldn't do it. People want a cocktail, they want their beer. Nothing you can do about it. But it's not the same mentality.

My parents, my mother drank Chianti and my father drank beer. Not a lot, but at meal time. I never saw my parents drunk, ever. They weren't drinking it to be intoxicated, to get high. It was a social thing. You probably know this, but I don't drink. I've never used a drug in my life. I don't even like taking Tylenol. 

Once you're into the drug world, once you start to do that then that opens up everything else. So in in Colorado, everybody running around getting all the marijuana they want, they meet other people in the same marijuana haze. "Hey, wait try this. This is a better high. This is this, this is that." 

Every drug rehab counselor I have ever spoken to says the same thing. Marijuana is a gateway drug. I know a lot of people don't believe it. But you're wrong.

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