Marijuana is often a gateway drug.

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i agree with you, and everything you said was very well put.
i started smoking in middle school, and i was always against every other drug besides weed. then after i smoked for awile, i was like.. i like how marijuana makes me feel, so how about i try some other things? and since then i experimented with a couple other drugs.

 

I wanted to do acid, shrooms, dxm, cigs, and other things before I wanted to smoke weed. I just found weed first, that's all.

 

[QUOTE edyb123]because of this, it's marijuana that gives people their first mind altering experience (besides alcohol ofcourse). Marijuana gives them a taste of the physcadelic experience.. and people often then look for a more intense trip.

Do you agree? If not, why not.[/QUOTE]

Alcohol is the drug most teens try before weed. The whole gateway theory is fucked up. Human instinct is to want the next best thing in life which technically makes every drug a gateway drug to something better. There's no need to create a theory about drug use when human nature is common sense.

 

Its not that people who smoke weed are likly to use harder drugs. Its just that people how use harder drugs are likly to smoke weed first.

 

id argue that while yes marijuana can be a gateway drug, it is not a means for illegalization. the same case against marijuana can be made against alcohol, more effectively even. also, in the long run, people no matter what we do will always do 'hard' drugs, and most of them will have tried 'soft' drugs first, but that doesnt mean had there been no soft drugs thered be no hard drugs. people just do soft drugs first because they are easier to find and more often readily available than hard drugs.

 

If for some reason pot vanished off the earth, then the next softest drug would just takes it place as a gateway drug. And besides, the real gateway drug is alchol. And coke is a gateway to crack which is a gateway to meth which is a gateway to heroin. Does that make scense?

 

ofc its a gateway drug. when i was 13 i smoked a ciggar with 3 friends, then i smoked some ciggs with friends. then i smoked some weed with friends. now i would pretty much try anything just not heroin, crack or meth.

 

Most people begin using marijuana in their teens, when people are trying new things and experimenting. Marijuana is one of the first things they try. It is part of the gateway to doing other than what Officer Friendly told your 6th grade class.

And, since it is illegal, it is most people's first encounter to the black market of illegal substances. "Where to get coke?" "I dunno. Maybe my weed connection will know." It is part of the gateway to illegal drugs.

Making grass legal would remove the second paragraph.

 

yes, good thoughts.
I remember one huge thread about this a while back. The conclusion I remember is it still depends on the individual. Some people have addictive personalities, or maybe even just want more out of life. Some people are content and dont even consider drugs. Alot of people only smoke weed, cigs and drink for drugs. Each person will do what he or she wants to depending on what they have exposed themselves to as far as drugs are concerned, and there definitely can be a gateway, or maybe even a snowball effect.

 

Exactly like MikeE said marijuana is only a gate way drug because when we buy weed we are exposed to all the other drugs that that particular drug dealer has at that time. For example most kids try cigarettes first which has the drug nicotine but that isn't a gateway drug because when we buy ciggs we get them from the gas station which does not sell heroin or crack or any of that so we are not exposed to it it is only when we go to the black market that we get exposed to other drugs that we get the urge to try them Marijuana is only a gate way drug as long as it is illegal one it is legalized it will stop being a gate way drug.

 

why is everyone saying we're exposed to the drugs the drug dealer has? most dealers who deal MJ just deal MJ. the dealers that deal other drugs may turn up, but my first dealer just dealed pot. but to reply to the topic, i don't consider weed a gateway drug, i consider more the teenage years a gateway to drugs. i probably would have sticked to weed if i wasn't influenced by some many things around me like music, television, or even hipforums (probably the biggest influence of all). i tried morning glory's like 2 days after i read about it on here. so yea, i'm gonna have to say hipforums is the biggest gateway drug of all lol.

 

I'm so sick of your long posts and these discussions. So I'm not reading, but I will tell you that it is a gateway drug, but it also depends on the person. You might not turn into a crack head or a heroin addict, but you might be more inclined to snort that line of coke at a party. Alcohol can play a big role in what drugs you're taking as well though. But pot is not a gateway for me anymore. I snorted coke for a little while, and it's no fun!

 

Exactly the gate is open by having to get the product from places which will eventualy lead you to heavier things. LEGALIZE IT

 

SO you think it's our dealer's fault???

That's bull.. legilization would be worse. The govt. would have their filthy hands all over it and it would suck.

 

I think weed is a gateway drug too but not as much as alcohol.

 

Last June, two grandmothers were convicted in Federal Court for cultivation. Because of federal minimum sentencing laws, these two old ladies will die in prison for growing their own medicine.

THAT sucks.

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thats democracy.

 

No its not. The people were never allowed to vote on canibus being an illegal drug.

And I don't put it fully on the dealers but it's the way it is. The underground market for drugs forces someone along the way to come in conact with "harder" drugs. I have found all my dealers that I became close friends with started doing the blow because they had the money and the connect... Now its my belief that they never would have sold drugs if marijuana was legal, most likely because we would have been to lazy. Just the way it is

 

^when we fail to elect a candidate that would decriminalize it, my friend that is democracy.