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theMADNESS

I was an off topic popper before I started marijuana toking.

As for my cannabis use leading to other drugs, it has. But only because of the new people I had met. If it weren't for my open mindedness, then I wouldn't have indulged in even more off topics. I have only taken them out of curiosity, to help me understand why others might take them and/ or abuse them. A kind of increasing my knowledge of the world around me..

 

SmasheR

I wouldn't actually call weed a gateway drug, but I would say its current legal status does lead people to do harder drugs after they have tried it. If weed was legal than people would be able to do it without being introduced to drug culture and I'd say would be less likely to do harder drugs. With the current situation, people end of trying weed and realize that DARE and school and TV commercials have been lying to them the entire time, and so that can cause people to just throw everything they have been told by these sources out and end up trying other drugs as well. If weed was legal than I think less people would do harder drugs because of the whole stigma with committing crime. Once people have taken the leap and smoked weed they have less qualms about doing it with other drugs as well because they realize it isn't even a big deal at all.

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Freedom_User

Well.. I was introduced to marijuana by my parents. They told me, I can do ANYthing I want with my body. They told me everything I needed to know about alcohol, cigarettes and weed. My parents, being hippies at heart told me to never do alcohol and cigarettes. So, they loaded me up a bowl, I went to my room and I put music on. I haven't looked back since. I believe Alcohol is THE gateway drug. Unlike marijuana... I feel very knowledgable about my own decisions and say no thanks. However, the one time I ever got drunk, without knowing and making conscious decisions, I ended up doing meth.

So No to marijuana, and a BIG YES to alcohol.

yodia206

I am taking a very fascinating class right now called Cultural Diversity and my teacher pointed out a very good point about whether or not pot is a gateway drug.

He said that pot isnt the gateway drug: its the cops doing their job and getting pot off the street which is the gatway. Its so true though! When cops get really nuts about pot and go crazy in a town trying to get all the dealers locked up and all the product destroyed/locked up there suddenly becomes a major pot shortage that affects all the stoners in the town if not the entire area, depending on how important that town was to the pot commerce in the area.

Harmless stoners who feel that they need that extra kick to get through the day/go to sleep/feel better/whatever suddenly can't get to product, or can't even find a dealer, or are told some rediculous price for a gram because there is so little to go around. So they say fuck it and go for anything thats around hoping to get that kick-usually something harder like acid/heroine/coke/meth w/e, or they say fuck it im not paying 60 for a gram of pot when I can get 1/8 coke for the same price. And so they move on to harder drugs. Statistically speaking generally as a towns smoke supply goes down its harder drug use goes up.

So how is that for ironic: the cops are the gateway. They cause the very thing they are supposed to prevent by riding the world of the best plant ever...

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FunkySkunky

I believe there is no such thing as a gateway drug. Alcohol came before cigarettes, cigarettes came before weed, off topics came after weed but there are multiple other substances which have invaded our lives which are also part of the problem. The way we justify drug use is just the same as the way we justify using caffeine to stay awake. We use drugs for physical and emotional pleasure, isn't it much the same thing? We ignore the risks and glorify the benefits within our psyche and socially in order to obtain pleasure. We're perpetually justifying everything we do and eluding that the first thing we have justified is marijuana is a treachery. Simply because it is the "softest" of illicit materials we have assumed that it must be the first drug everyone tries that sets them atop a "slippery slope" but realistically kids have already started to justify smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using smokeless tobacco, etc.

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GateKeeper2000

I actually believe it is.
I'm certainly not blaming pot but I only used to drink, then my girlfriend at the time got me smoking. Then I started hanging around other people who smoked. Next thing ya know I'm trying LSD (I loved it, by the way).
I have no regrets but I don't think I would have tried the stuff that I have if it hadn't started out with pot...

Kayla

When I was 17, marijuana was the first substance that I put into my body (Even before tobacco or alcohol). Since then, I have added quite a few more things to my repertoire. Everything that I have done so far would have taken place regardless of whether or not I smoked pot first. It just so happens that things happened the order in which they did.

I don't think that marijuana is a gateway drug, because I think that if a person is going to do other drugs, they are going to do it of their own accord. But I can definitely see how pot could make one more willing to experiment with other substances.

I really hope I didn't just talk myself into a circle.

dan3

I've only done marijuana and shrooms... Never plan on doing anything else... ever!

(shrooms offtopic i know)

circasurvivefan

I'd like to say that the argument that marijuana is a gateway drug is the stupidest and silliest argument anyone can ever make for it being illegal. Yes, most people that do crack and heroine started on weed. But you know why? BECAUSE IT'S SAFE!! you won't die from it and it gives you a good introduction to what a drug intoxication is like as opposed to alcohol. I have never done anything but weed so I'm not trying to say it's like coke but it's a relatively easy concept to understand that you'd start with the least dangerous of substances. You don't do it and then want to do coke, if you move onto coke afterwards you probably would have done it anyway. If weed didn't exist you would have been right on snorting that shit either way. Some people just have a craving for being intoxicated, being high on weed doesn't change your opinion on other drugs. I would never do coke or heroine or anything that could kill you, to me it's just common sense not to, but to others the high outweighs the fear of anything bad that could happen.

Secondly, it's only a gateway drug because alot of dealers that have weed also have other harder drugs and will try to push them on you. If you're set in your ways about not doing harder drugs you won't, but if you're easily convinced or want to do them anyway then you will. It blows my mind that people don't see those points and genuinely argue that weed makes you want to use harder drugs. Weed may make you want to experiment with other drugs but for me it didn't change my opinion that I don't want to die. If you smoke weed and say hey this is fun, I'll try cocaine then you're unable to seperate a safe substance from a dangerous one and would most likely have done the latter regardless. Just because you like and enjoy weed doesn't mean it's time to do something more intense and risk your life.

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racin36er

Yeah, i'm not sure i agree with the "gateway-drug" theory.

As others have stated, I think situations just have a lot to do with it. I love weed, and have had regular access to other harder off-topics for years, and have never, and will never succumb to them. I'll smoke, and I've had the urge for the last year or so to try some other organically grown fugus (if you catch my drift) but I haven't yet.


When i first started smoking pot I tried an off-topic (but popular) pill at a party, but didn't get anything off the first or second pill I tried, therefore haven't tried it again since, and probably never will again.

The gateway theory just doesn't sit with me. Just because I smoke pot, doesn't mean i'm going to run out and start smoking some other off-topics or injecting them, to get a better high. I think people who start that are self-destructive (either consciously or subconsciously) and have other things "pressuring" them into the situation. Not so much pressuring, I just can't come up with a better word atm (wake-n-bake FTW!!!!!)