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Doc Mitch

i believe there are many people that smoke weed and only smoke weed. i am not one of them. most people that i know (including myself) started smoking weed before doing any other drug and probably wouldve never tried any other drug if they never smoked. to me that classifies it as a gateway drug.

 

stoney_tony676

pot is a gatway drug because of two reasons its illegal pot being illegal makes it a gatway drug because it helps peploe get the ability to try other drugs some pepole that smoke pot use other drugs and they are more likely to offer those illegal drugs to someone the have smoked pot with then someone they have not allmost every stoner outh there has ben offerd something harder at one point or another.
reason two there is so much propaganda sourounding marajuana when someone trys it and finds out that it really is harmelse contray to what we have ben told all are lives by teachers parents and so on it makes you wonder what eles are the lying abought or at least it did for me it kills there credability i do not advocate in use of harder drugs its stupid and not everey thing they told u was a liye "u will be alright with the ocational shroom trip though"

the_silent_scream

The only reason I would ever consider weed a gateway drug is because the drug authorities will advertise that marijuana was just as detremental to your physical and psychological health as other drugs, such as ice, cocaine, acid etc. Kids smoke weed, realise it isnt as bad as they were made believe, and remember what has been drilled into them - if they lied about weed, they probably lied about everything else. If weed is as bad as ice, and all weed does to me is make me happy/hungry/sleepy etc, Ice can't be that bad either.

I don't think weed is a gateway drug - many people who smoke weed go onto harder drugs - but alot don't. If you end up a heroin addict, I can bet more went wrong in your childhood than the puff of a jay behind the school toilet block, or in the trees. It all comes down to choice, weed doesn't make choices, you do.

Merry-juana

Or take a different variaties of weed, and different ways to gt it in your body.
For instance if you only smoked sativa, Indica will be a new experiance for you, and if you never vaporized, it will be a great experiance too. Then you can also try one of the million strains of marijuana.

Dank Perception

You can make all the excuses you want, but weed is not a gateway drug. You're to blame for moving on to other drugs. Curiosity for the feel of other drugs, wonder, they may start after trying weed, but it's not weed that does it to you. It's all you... That big pink thing in your head makes you want. That is the gateway. Besides what was your gateway to try weed?

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DemonTheKid

It can be a drug used on your way to using other drugs, but by far most people who do those first start off with either tabbaco or drinking.

AnotherToker

I dont think its a gateway drug, just the easiest to access and most redily used. Therefore it is where most people start.

I wouls say alcohol is more of a gateway drug than pot

Darkflan

I agree with AnotherToker on how alcohol is more of a gateway drug than pot.

But since pot is very easy to get and cheap its probably what most people are going to start with. Depending on how the user is affected he might seek out other off topics or he might be satisfied with the weed.

I'll admit it wasn't until I smoked weed for the first time was I interested in other drugs. But that might be from my addictive personality which runs in the family.

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joshpackr

I would disagree with that statement. In my area it's easier to find many other hard drugs than it is marijuana.

blondie0420

No, it's not a gateway drug. It just isn't.

First, I must reitorate the old saying: correlation does not equal causation. Just because some people use marijuana and use other drugs, that does not mean that their use of marijuana, even if it came first, caused or in any way directly led to their use of other drugs.

Just because correlation does exist, that does not mean that the change in one variable (ie. smoking pot) is causing a change in the other variable (ie. use of other drugs). For example, one could say that over the past 800 years, the number of pirates on the seas has decreased considerably and that over that same period of time, the average global temperature has risen. But even though these two things appear to have some correlation, does that mean that global warming is directly caused by a decrease in the number of pirates? Obviously not.

The other point that I want to make is that over 80% of Americans who have ever used any kind of drug have only ever used marijuana. The fact that a mere 20% of Americans have smoked pot and done some other kind of drug is simply not enough to show that it might be a gateway drug. What's more is that there isn't any evidence that I'm aware of that shows that marijuana was actually the first drug these 20% of Americans ever used. So it is entirely possible that at least some of them started with coke or meth or alcohol or something else as opposed to marijuana.

I think that fact alone should be enough to dispell any myths about marijuana being a gateway drug. It is simply irresponsible and of poor form to use a figure of less than 20% to make a generalization that you're going to then apply to an entire group of people. If I were to say that, at best, less than 20% of people who use mouthwash still have bad breath, would you believe me if I then turned around and told you that all people who use mouthwash have bad breath? Absolutely not. People who are afraid of marijuana and who lie about its effects have simply been using a figure that is way too small and unreliable to discredit all marijuana users, scare people into believing what they say, and keep the drug illegal.

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