For the Culture By The Culture. ISSN: 3064-9331.
For decades, politicians have claimed marijuana is a gateway to heroin and harder drugs. Federal youth surveys, NSDUH data, and NIDA’s own language tell a different story. Cannabis use is widespread, hard drug use remains rare, and most users do not progress. The data dismantles one of prohibition’s most durable fear narratives.
A wave of anti-cannabis research is flooding headlines, but it is not science, it is strategy. Backed by NIDA, Big Pharma, and prohibition-era agendas, these fear-driven studies distort data to stall legalization and protect profits. Pot Culture Magazine follows the funding, exposes the bias, and rips open the system behind cannabis research manipulation.
