Michael Ranzenhofer
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Michael Ranzenhoferis a New York State Senator and drug warrior.
In 2012 he repeated the same old nonsense about marijuana being a "gateway drug" to express his opposition to a proposal for reduced legal penalties for possession: “Everybody knows that marijuana is the gateway drug for more serious drugs, cocaine, heroin, and we have a very very serious problem of drug abuse and drug addiction within our community and within our state,” he asserted in 2012. See News Article Beyond the obvious logical fallacy of using "everybody knows" as evidence, the problem is that the only thing connecting marijuana with other illicit drugs is their illegality. In effect, Ranzenhofer and fellow drug warriors insist on imposing a conenction that would otherwise not exist.
