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Do you think weed is a 'gate-way' drug?

bud.lightyear said:
yea as a lotta ppl said, alcohol definitely was my gateway. as soon as i got drunk the first time i thought, "shit whats weed like!?"

then i fell in love....

tried coke a few times (thought it was useless) and just stuck with weed for another like 5 years till i found pills.

but definitely alco open the door to weed, and iw as more than happy with that for a while. now i dont do anything besides it cuz there aint no pills!
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Thinking about it the only reason i started smoking pot was because i was drunk at a friends and then tried it.

At that point i continued to drink and smoke pot, then at a party i was really drunk and tried ecstasy.

It was only after that when i got interested in other drugs. Up until that point i didn't really know any drugs other then coke, e, heroin acid and mush.

Mercury (Hg) said:
That's not true.

Your mom'll just start binging on uppers and have permanent psychosis.

True story.
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I liked that movie.
 
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I don't know, really. I'd say the gateway theory is bullshit since there are plenty of people who smoke weed and just stick to that, never going on to other substances. Other people start with other shit and then pick up smoking weed later. Weed was my first illegal drug and probably truly sparked my interest in other ways of altering my consciousness, and I started at the ripe old age of 13, but before that I tried cigarettes and more notably alcohol, which was what got me into the habit of changing my state of being.
I slowly started drinking less and smoking more weed, and obviously due to its illegality that made it more easy to get access to other illegal drugs, but I believe it is my personality that makes me curious towards that kind of thing.
 
I don't think it's a 'gateway' drug, I think it's a 'getaway' drug.


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Heh, anybody catch what I did there? Fuckin' wordsmith, I am. =D
 
I think it's the person really. Before I was smoking weed I wanted to try everything but then other mates of mine only ever smoke weed and think i'm retarded for doing anything else.
So it just depends on the type of person you are, however I am sure if somebody has an interest in drugs and starts with weed they may move onto other things when they realise they don't have schizophrenia and aren't paraplegic.
 
blode said:
I think it's the person really. Before I was smoking weed I wanted to try everything but then other mates of mine only ever smoke weed and think i'm retarded for doing anything else.
So it just depends on the type of person you are, however I am sure if somebody has an interest in drugs and starts with weed they may move onto other things when they realise they don't have schizophrenia and aren't paraplegic.
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This is also true. I'll go through phases when I'll do more other stuff but I always come crawling back to weed, realizing it's the best and I rarely need anything else. Smoking weed also keeps away any cravings I have to do other drugs.
 
I think people will always consider weed a "gateway drug" simply because MOST of the population tries it as their first drug.

Personally, I don't like the term "gateway drug", because I feel that it doesn't always apply.

For example, people are NATURALLY going to want to "build" their way up on the drug chain. Not many people START doing drugs by means of methamphetamine or heroin. The majority of the population starts out with the "less harmful, less addicting" drugs, like weed and ecstasy.

My first high was weed, then ecstasy, then mephedrone, then speed, then heroin, then..well, you get it. Most people "build" their way up. Or, luckily, some people stop before they reach as far up as others get :(
 
Gateway drug is a stupid term.

But if there is such a thing, then surely it is alcohol, cigarettes, and even sugar in my opinion, that help facilitate addictive behavior in people.
 
To be honest I started with weed due to the fact that I knew that I was going to try out LSD and ecstacy in my younger days. I just wanted to try something different and get me tuned in on what was coming next. Not exactly your typical gateway theory but, meh.
 
I agree with what some others has said... Marijuana is a gate way to the dirty underbelly of society; were it legal I dont think the 'gate way' drug argument would hold any weight.
 
weed is only a gateway drug because of how it is obtained.

weed is not all that profitable. You can make money, yes, but generally speaking you cannot make a living. So most dealers sell something else on the side (or weed is their 'on the side'). Hence, when a person is buying weed, there is often a strong push to buy something that will make the dealer more money. Even if the push is mild, the fact that you are obtaining one illegal yet relatively benign substance makes it easier to justify in a person's mind.
 
I don't think smoking cannabis will make you do anything you wouldn't have otherwise been curious about. It's my belief that the only thing that makes cannabis a "gateway drug" is it's current legal status. Over 50% of United States citizens have smoked cannabis at at least one point in their life, many of those people go on to use it again or at least change their perspective on the level of danger presented by it.

I know after I first smoked I began to question what else I had been lied to about, specifically concerning other drugs. This is what lead me to consult erowid.org for the first time, and since I've tried a number of psychedelics in addition to having smoked cannabis thousands of times since that first hit.

While I am very careful about what chemicals I will introduce to my body and stick to cannabis, psychedelics, and the occasional empathogen, and always research the chemicals I consider ingesting before I will actually consume them, there are many people out there who don't take these precautions. This is likely why cannabis is considered a "gateway" to the use of harder drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other chemicals that can lead to physical addiction and cause harm to the body; in other words, cannabis shows people that not all illegal drugs are as bad as they're made out to be, leading some people to try and, later, develop habits with harder drugs that actually do cause serious problems.

TL;DR - The "gateway" effect that is blamed on cannabis is more likely a result of the legality of cannabis rather than an actual effect of the cannabinoids.
 
I beleive once one has encoutered a psychoactive experience then alot of doors are indeed opened, But whether to delge into these realms is your own choice :) On the other hand i know alot of people who have smoked all of their lives yet not touched any other substances, Just though id have my say. Peace.
 
it was a gateway drug for me. i remember just having nights at a friends house smoking a bunch of pot and having a good ass time. then i remember some time after that we got to a friends house and have like 1/4oz of weed and we were stayin there that night and i was wishin we had something else then weed, and the night did indeed turn out boring to me
 
Haven't read all the responses so my answer probably already covered.

Weed was not a gateway drug for me. I find gateway drugs are one's which take you somewhere unexpected. Everyone sort of expects weed to be like weed, therefore your mind isnt' (imo) opened to other possibilities by it. I smoked weed regularly for about 6 years without even an incling to try another drug. That all changed when I tried my first line of coke though, followed by my first xstsy. Anything that hit's those pathways is opening gates for further exploration. Places that weed just doesn't go...
 
Hell no. I don't think any drug should be called the gateway drug. However, If I had to blame a substance for being the cause of all 'HORRIBLE DRUG USE' in the world .... ( ;) ) I'd say alcohol (or cigarettes for that matter). I didn't smoke weed until I'd been drinking for a decent amount of time. I tried it while drunk, and continued to do so until I got a bit older and wanted to experience it alone. THEN, post 20yrs I ventured into other areas.
 
^ I suppose this debate hinges on the definition of 'gate-way'. For me, this means a drug which has the strong potential to lead to the use of other drugs.

In terms of harm though, I agree you don't get a lot worse than cigarettes and alcohol
 
I think the gateway theory is not something that is believed in my opinion. People are gunna make their choices no matter what. My mother has tried cocaine and hasn't even smoked weed. :/
 
Hell no, it's actually been able to convince how dangerous the harder can really be. It did me started on tobacco though but I smoke very little tobacco these days. Probably like a 25-1 ratio of weed vs tobacco. Anyway, I was watching Breaking Bad last night and Hank really proved the theory of most prohibitionists, they believe ANYONE who tried weed with always graduate to coke, meth or herion. Believe me, the only thing I've ever considered doing was snorting coke once to try how it is. That's it and I got feeling I won't even like coke because I'm not a very stimulated person in general.
 
woamotive said:
Hell no. I don't think any drug should be called the gateway drug. However, If I had to blame a substance for being the cause of all 'HORRIBLE DRUG USE' in the world .... ( ;) ) I'd say alcohol (or cigarettes for that matter). I didn't smoke weed until I'd been drinking for a decent amount of time. I tried it while drunk, and continued to do so until I got a bit older and wanted to experience it alone. THEN, post 20yrs I ventured into other areas.
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well, i guess all drugs have the potential to be a 'gateway' in the sense that any drug can arouse the mind with curiosity, but weed still remains as one of the easiest illegal drugs to obtain. if i tried to cop some blow or some rolls before i started blazing, i'd have had no idea who to call. probably would have had to go through 4 or 5 people. being a stoner has put coke, rolls, a variety of pills, psychs, and probably some tar only a phone call, maybe 2 at the max away. unless your under 21, drinking alcohol doesn't first require a 'connect'.

smoking introduces you to the drug scene. its not the only way in, but its a probably the easiest.
 
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