Is Marijuana a gateway drug?

Is marijuana a gateway drug?

  • Marijuana led me to other illegal drugs

    Votes: 5 14.3%

  • Tobacco led me to M or other illegal drugs

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Alcohol led me to M or other illegal drugs

    Votes: 4 11.4%

  • Marijuana did not lead me to other illegal drugs

    Votes: 25 71.4%
  • Total voters
    35
c7ityi_ said:
drugs can't lead to anything because they're not causes.
the cause for anything is always in the mind/thoughts.

some thoughts cause the interest for drugs.
then the drugs create other thoughts.
which may cause the interest for other drugs.
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La la la. Quite true.
 
Bowser said:
Where ther is one illicit drug there will be other illicit drugs, and thus the opportunity to experiment. I imagine that if you made pot available on the store shelf people, would buy it.
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I know many people who would just love that!
 
I never smoked Marijuana till I had tried most other narcotics. I can thankfully say that Marijuana assisted me of ditching the hard stuff, and I have not looked back since.

Bad Bad Drugs:

- Cocaine
- Crack
- Heroin
- Crystal Meths

Bad, but not bad drugs

- Alcohol
- E

Not so bad drugs

- Marijuana
- LSD
- Shrooms

Just a bit of information. Marijuana was banned because of one mans racism during the silly conservative American prohibition period. We can thank them and their trade policies for an almost world wide ban on a herb that helps.
 
I think the real issue is that people are being sucked into the drug culture with the use of Marijuana. More or less, Marijuana could be considered the gateway to being exposed to all of these other drugs. No, the Marijuana won't immediately make you want to try harder drugs, but it is a gateway to a lifestyle that has easy access to them. Thus, the gateway status.
 
mabufo said:
I think the real issue is that people are being sucked into the drug culture with the use of Marijuana. More or less, Marijuana could be considered the gateway to being exposed to all of these other drugs. No, the Marijuana won't immediately make you want to try harder drugs, but it is a gateway to a lifestyle that has easy access to them. Thus, the gateway status.
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Thats because they are being lied to. Theyre not stupid. People tell them marijuana is a bad drug like all the other drugs. When they compare that to alcohol when they try it, could they not think that if this drug is not so bad perhaps all the others are not so bad.

Tell them the truth about it. Its less harmful than alcohol. The other drugs are much worse and have much more dangerous and harmful side effects.
 
I think the reality of it, is that the side affect of Marijuana is close to what I posted - or at least that's how stuff works in my high school.
 
As previous posters have stated, cannabis is a "gateway drug" only because it is illegal. Because it is depicted as evil by, for example, the U.S. Government, people that wish for access to it can be forced to use contacts who use/sell other, harder drugs. Plus, upon realizing that most of what is commonly known about cannabis is completely baseless, some people begin to wonder how much of the common stereotypes concerning other drugs are false.

Anyway, I am a moderate cannabis user, I have used LSD and mushrooms containing psilocybin and nothing else. I did not do 'shrooms or LSD based on my experience with cannabis.

I intended at this point to place a link to drugwarfacts.org, where there is a section on marijuana as a "gateway drug," but apparently I cannot, so I'll just trust that the readers of this post are competent enough to figure out where to go.
 
I.D. said:
I intended at this point to place a link to drugwarfacts.org, where there is a section on marijuana as a "gateway drug," but apparently I cannot, so I'll just trust that the readers of this post are competent enough to figure out where to go.
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This link?
 
c7ityi_ said:
drugs can't lead to anything because they're not causes.
the cause for anything is always in the mind/thoughts.

some thoughts cause the interest for drugs.
then the drugs create other thoughts.
which may cause the interest for other drugs.
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Basically correct.

"The worm has definately turned for you, my friend"
 
I started smoknig about 1 year, 3 months ago
Then i tried mary jane about 5 months ago
and i tired a lesser version of speed about 4 weeks ago

however, im never doing any form of pill like that again because it uscked iodnt rember what happned, but i do rember wishing i would die so the chemicals im off of, i jsut got caught with a pipe for mary jane, and i am htinknig aobut quioting the reefer but im not sure if i will or not

and ciggerettes, i smoke because im addicted, and because i love it!
 
riku_124 said:
I started smoknig about 1 year, 3 months ago
Then i tried mary jane about 5 months ago
and i tired a lesser version of speed about 4 weeks ago

however, im never doing any form of pill like that again because it uscked iodnt rember what happned, but i do rember wishing i would die so the chemicals im off of, i jsut got caught with a pipe for mary jane, and i am htinknig aobut quioting the reefer but im not sure if i will or not

and ciggerettes, i smoke because im addicted, and because i love it!
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Are you illiterate?

And the depressed feeling is due to the chemicals in your brain, speed does that too you
 
I think it all depends on the cultural context - the fact that m is illegal definitely increases incidences where it is a gateway component. Similarly I think negative psychological traits are amplified by illegality e.g. long-periods of well-founded paranoia.

Marijuana will be legalized when they can figure out how to tax a 'weed' - its only a good capitalist drug whilst it's illegal. Don't hold your breath...
 
I think it's a gateway drug, to a certain extent. Personally I tried ecstacy, but that was it after being a stoner.

The only reason I didn't go on to other things was because my head stopped working one day and I've thought differently since.

All of my stoner friends from back in the day are doing ecstacy through the week and coke at the weekend. All the while smoking joints, obviously :(

I wish I could get out my face on random drugs, but I have a pretty severe anti-placebo. Not sure what the word is for that, but I freak myself out quite easily and panic about things.
 
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