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ESDFSFD

Crafty mods erased the 5th choice!

It was funny IMO but technically off-topic.

 

anonymity

It makes sense. I wasn't trying to start ****, just pointing out the flaw in your argument. I agree that the atmosphere can lead people to other drugs, but not that the drugs themselves (THC, CBN, CBD, etc.) will lead you to use other drugs.

ESDFSFD

weiisky, what about people seeking not a better high but a different high than what marijuana offers? Do you think that would constitute it as a gateway drug? This would be another reason I would try other drugs for different effects and feelings.

To me it sounds like JustWonderin is saying that if you buy drugs and are exposed to them, weed in particular, you will be more prone to try other drugs because you are accustomed to the situation and the drugs are there.

IggyPop

I think that if someone is going to do hard drugs they will do it no matter what, it just so happens that marijuana is the most readily available of all the drugs and so they start there and progress from there on...

Anti-drug prats will tell you all about how 90% of hard drug users smoked marijuana first. This is a complete bending of the truth. While it may be true that 90% of hard drug users started on pot, that statistic is highly irellevant. What we need to ask is, what percentage of marijuana smokers go on to use harder drugs. I would predict the result to be very low indeed.

GrassyAss

I voted "I don't use drugs."

Weed is not a plant used for thousands of years and we outlawed it. A PLANT!

The only way weed has anything to do with hard rrugs is it being the most readily available and cheap way to get high. So everyone starts off smoking pot then once they get enough money they may go on to harder ****. My theory is if you are going to try to do hard drugs you will regardless of anything marijuana has done.

I wil be the first to admit I've done off-topics numerous times. None of the hard drugs ever because I do not want to die the 1st time just cuz I want to get high.

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Raised Fist

I voted no, because the whole idea of a "Gateway" drug is idiotic. When you smoke cannabis, it doesn't tell you to go out and try other drugs, you know what I mean? The only reason most people try marijuana first is because of availability. I admit I wanted to try certain off-topics before I ever wanted to touch mj.

oolceeoo

Don't get me wrong I love weed, but it IS a drug. It alters your consciousness and has effects on your body.

Some people think that just because something is natural or a plant, that it isn't a drug. This simply isn't true!

Many natural plants like tobacco, garlic, milk thistle, nutmeg, willow bark (aspirin), all change the function of the body. Weed is no exception. Hell, if it didn't have the drug characteristics as it does, no one would smoke it! Plus, not all plants are safe to consume. Ever seen someone consume belladonna? Not a fun thing to go through...(Hope those plants aren't considered 'off topic')

Weed can be a gateway drug for some people, but in others it is not. Some people are daring enough to toy with real, physical addiction with off-topics while many aren't. One cannot generalize weed as being a gateway drug for all people. It all depends on personal characteristics.

Raised Fist

I don't think they were refering it to not being a drug at all, just not in the same sense as harmful off-topic drugs...

dniemann8

ive been an everyday smoker for about 10 months now and i havnt tried anyother drug.i have no desires to do any other drugs either.im just gonna stick with the greens.

p.funk

Marijuana is a "gateway" drug -- it leads to hard drugs
This is one of the more persistent myths. A real world example of what happens when marijuana is readily available can be found in Holland. The Dutch partially legalized marijuana in the 1970s. Since then, hard drug use -- heroin and cocaine -- have DECLINED substantially. If marijuana really were a gateway drug, one would have expected use of hard drugs to have gone up, not down. This apparent "negative gateway" effect has also been observed in the United States. Studies done in the early 1970s showed a negative correlation between use of marijuana and use of alcohol. A 1993 Rand Corporation study that compared drug use in states that had decriminalized marijuana versus those that had not, found that where marijuana was more available -- the states that had decriminalized -- hard drug abuse as measured by emergency room episodes decreased. In short, what science and actual experience tell us is that marijuana tends to substitute for the much more dangerous hard drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.