Marijuana is a gateway drug, a gateway to legalizing all plants and changing our entire idea of what the difference between a plant and a drug is under law.
There is a false dichotomy in the plant vs pharmaceutical argument. It isn't whether or not it is plants or pharmaceuticals that should be used in medicine. It is the dichotomy most often used against the people in the pro plant left, by the pharmaceutical side of the debate yet rarely ever mentioned by either side. The argument that a plant is a drug, automatically, no exceptions. No one using the plant is legitimately allowed to grow it for taxonomic purposes (and with many plants not allowed to even posses seed from it.), everyone is automatically using and cultivating it for drug purposes under the law. No exceptions. I believe that both sides are wrong in bickering about the above when there are people being victimized by law, by the later. By the fact that the cannabis plant is not a singular substance yet listed as such under the DEA's controlled substances list. That is the real plant vs drug false dichotomy. The fact that plants are treated as substances under law. Blindly nevertheless. Allowing for what in another sense would be classified as legitimate and legal behavior being classed as criminality and the intent to commit a crime. You can look at the morning glory flower and numerous other plants as standing double standards under US drug law. The morning glory contains scheduled substances but is legal to cultivate for beautification purposes. Yet we lock people up for plants like cannabis and have decided to specifically list it, the plant as a substance. It is blatant hypocrisy to schedule one and not the other, but I suspect they haven't done so because of the backlash they would get from gardeners as well as the fact that it would be impossible to police the growing of native or wild morning glory's, because they are everywhere. Just like wild petunias. The laws we currently have relating to the cultivation of certain plants in this nation are an abomination in my opinion and they shouldn't be allowed to stand as written.
