Many people have the idea that weed is a drug that induces you to harder drugs. In my case it wasnt that way, first I tried E and LSD, then weed. I rarely do those other drugs but I do smoke weed very often. I would like to know if many people started with weed and what came after it..
No. The only reason marijuana is considered a "gateway drug" is simply because it seems relatively harmless and benign and is readily available. Therefore, most people who use drugs begin with marijuana.
But marijuana does not have some magic effect that makes a user want to continue trying more and more drugs. Generally they realize all of the anti-drug propaganda about marijuana was wrong, so why would the anti-drug propaganda about other drugs not be wrong? And the more entrenched you become with drug culture, the more drugs you will have available to try.
My first drug was alcohol. Then I experimented with codeine. Then marijuana. Then LSD. I never had any desire to try "hard drugs" for years. I was perfectly comfortable with psychedelics, Percocet and marijuana.
That changed when I began going to raves and suddenly drugs that were not socially acceptable in my circles were. And there was a plethora to try from.
From there, I met more connections to more drugs and eventually found myself a heroin addict for several years.
I stopped using opiates years ago.
I have kept experimenting to this day with various substances. Psychedelics. There are newer ones becoming available so often that I still have time to try all that I have been collecting.
I'm older, have a steady job, family obligations, et cetera. I just don't have the time or desire to use.
At any rate, no, marijuana is not a "gateway" drug. That is complete non-sense. If you use a psychoactive drug, like the high and become interested in exploring other drugs, that is, by definition, your "gateway drug".
Alcohol is a drug. Nicotine is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. Why are they not "gateway" drugs? At least in America, those are the drugs you are more likely to consume first.
Not everyone who uses marijuana goes on to using other drugs.
And I've known people that started drinking alcohol in high school, got right into cocaine and eventually became crackheads, having never used marijuana.
The entire premise of drug like marijuana being singled out as a "gateway drug" is a complete myth.
And when people use marijuana and their lives don't become shattered overnight or they don't find themselves shooting heroin in back alleys, they are less likely to believe propaganda.
When you find out you've been lied to by people you have been taught to trust, you lose faith and start to question everything. I likened it to my discovery that Santa Clause wasn't real.
And at least with my logic, I just began to see what adults were promoting to me as distortions and lies and had to discover everything myself the hard way before I matured enough to be able to discern truth from fiction without having to experiment everything myself.
But even today, I still do on occasion. Mostly to prove others promoting myths wrong - and that's my point, that you should logically think something out before promoting it as truth. Recently there was an article about plants being watered with water that had come from the microwave and those plants dying, so obviously, it was the radiation.
Well, I did this experiment on my own. Using morning glory seeds I had collected from the same plant last Fall. I used 100 seeds in two batches and made sure the conditions were EXACTLY the same. I would apply distilled room water to half of the seeds. And microwaved water that had been allowed to cool down to room temperature. Not only did the plants germinate with "radioactive" water, the germination rate was actually slightly better. The plants grew exactly the same.
In the meantime (sometime shortly after the first "true" leaves of the plants grew), the article that had been promoted on all sorts of health websites had been debunked.
And the entire premise of the article was ridiculous anyhow. It's very simple to get a gieger counter and put it over microwaved food. There is no significant lingering radiation. And that experiment has been done dozens of times over the years. Yet somehow, nobody ever wants to either do some research or believe those scientifically sound experiments with duplicate results 10 out of 10 times.
