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
"Not sure what the word is for that, but I freak myself out quite easily and panic about things."

tai chi or chi gung classes are good for this...
 
People who are going to take serious drugs are ofcourse going to first try things like pot and alcohol.
So in a way, yes it is "the gateway" to these drugs.
It's pretty much guaranteed someone will go through that "gateway" to get to the other drugs.
But this by no means suggests that pot is causing them to take the other drugs.

Pot is a gateway to becoming a lazy piece of braindead shit with no motivation, though.
 
as an avid weed user, i see nothing wrong with using marijuana on a moderate basis. it is definitely not a gateway drug, if it is, why isnt beer and cigarettes considered one? after all, many potheads tried cigarettes before using weed lol. i smoke marijuana at least once a week, i never feel the need to sniff coke or smoke crack because of it. if anything, weed is medicine for the soul and the brain.

the system (us govt) has marijuana illegal just to give the pharmeceutical companies an advantage over in the medicine field. if marijuana was legal, half of these drugs we use to treat our illnesses would be unecessary and wasteful spending at best, frauds compared to marijuana at worst.

the us gov't spends 15 billion dollars a year chasing drug lords that will be replaced after one day. how smart.
 
In moderation, sure.

When you start smoking weed every day and it becomes 'the norm', all bets are off. When you feel normal being stoned and you remember when it was a new feeling, you wonder what other drugs will make you feel and you'll be more inclined to use them.
 
leopold99 said:
All studies have confirmed a link between early use of so-called “gateway drugs” and later use of harder drugs.
All studies! There are no studies in existance where ZERO hard drug users report starting out with the hard drugs, they all report first trying light drugs. Where the debate comes in to play is in the number of light users who later turn to hard drugs and the other factors in the lives of those individuals that may make them turn to these drugs. The million dollar question is -– did these people try hard drugs because of their experiences with light drugs or was there some other factor in their lives that led them to escalate their need to get high, a factor totally unrelated to their first experiences with lighter drugs (known in studies as “confounding variables”). The answer hear is unclear and this is what clouds up the “gateway drug” theory.

The reality is very few people first jump into drug use with the heavy ones.
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the first "drug" i ever tried was LSD, when i was 13. i didnt even smoke marijuana until i was 19. same goes for cigarettes.
 
perhaps if people didn't make such a big deal out of it, then stoners would just smoke pot cause they like it, not cause they feel like they have to be an active part of some counter-culture.

There's a large amount of people who just like doing drugs. Marijuana is the most popular drug. Therefore it seems that the first drug that most people who like drugs will take is marijuana. That's all the correllation there is, most of the time (Everyone in this thread is correct for what they have seen, but what they've seen is only a fraction of all there is).
 
"Perhaps if people didn't make such a big deal out of it, then stoners would just smoke pot cause they like it, not cause they feel like they have to be an active part of some counter-culture."

It is a several thousand year-old 'counter-culture' that has seen more than a few 'mainstream cultures' come and go...there could be an evolutionary advantage to marijuana use...
 
zenbabelfish said:
"Perhaps if people didn't make such a big deal out of it, then stoners would just smoke pot cause they like it, not cause they feel like they have to be an active part of some counter-culture."

It is a several thousand year-old 'counter-culture' that has seen more than a few 'mainstream cultures' come and go...there could be an evolutionary advantage to marijuana use...
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I'm not talking about the usage of cannabis in general. I'm talking about the (mostly US) counter-culture that springs from rejection of the American lifestyle. They're attracted to pot mostly because it is regarded as "evil" by suburbanites and conservatives. They want to offend others as much as possible.
 
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