Desirae Hoover: Legal Painkillers Are The Real Gateway Drugs, Not Marijuana

For the past 80 years we have been taught that the biggest reason cannabis stays illegal, is that it is a “gateway drug”, that leads to harder drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, etc.

Last Tuesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch spoke to Kentucky high school students about heroin abuse as a part of Prescription Opioid Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week. Kentucky has been facing a heroin and opioid epidemic that led to the state’s introduction of The Heroin Bill, in 2015, which calls for stricter sentences for heroin dealers as well…