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

^How can you call yourself drzoidbergphd and have an avatar other than Dr. Zoidberg?

I don't think the gateway drug theory usually refers to stronger forms of the same drug. Mind you, it's all very fuzzy and relies on concepts like "hard" and "soft" drugs, which don't really stand up to analysis.
 
Yerg said:
^How can you call yourself drzoidbergphd and have an avatar other than Dr. Zoidberg?

I don't think the gateway drug theory usually refers to stronger forms of the same drug. Mind you, it's all very fuzzy and relies on concepts like "hard" and "soft" drugs, which don't really stand up to analysis.
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to much of anything can make you an addict...
 
If you asked me two years a go, I would have strongly disagreed and criticized this as I was all caught up in the whole 'MARIJUANA DOESN'T KILL KNOW YOUR FACTS' stage that every stoner gets in the early days. But reality is its a gateway drug, I've since tried a large, large variety of drugs. I'm all for harm reduction and wouldn't take something unless I was fairly aware of what it was (e.g. nrg/a3a etc aren't for me). Of course it isn't the case for everyone, but due to weeds world wide use, easy availability and it's fun experience it's likely that those who try it are going to try other drugs to try to find similar, or stronger experiences. I remember the days when I said I'd never drops pills or acid, I eat acid every week or so now. Oh how times change!
 
this is my theory ...

i go to pick up some weed from my drug dealer , the first thing he tells me when he sees me is that he has some fire ass cocaine !


BAMM!!!!

thats how it all starts your drug dealer is your gateway. that person that you go buy your drugs from

then its the ppl you associate yourself with , i must admit i introduced my brother to E i would talk lots about it till he finally told me he wanted to try it , then he started hanging out with an acid eating minion then he picked up that idea from him ...


when i smoke i dont tell myself 'shit i wanna do some crack to get higher'

its just ridiculous that gateway theory
 
I do not think weed is a gateway drug. Weed just happens to be very available early in your life, therefore is usually your first drug. If you have an addictive personality then you are most likely going to move on to the next drug, not because the weed was so great, but because you are curious and simply just ready for the next drugs adventure. I did go from weed to meth (a weird jump i know) and then tried everything else. Then I discovered my downfall Heroin.....
 
if there is such a thing as a gateway drug i would say booze is ~ when i was a puber i promised myself i would never touch a powder, well one night drunk on whiskey some friends came over with some K , well i was like fuck it , snifffff, uhh can i have another ~


i was a big pothead when i was puber i was against prescription pills , i hated them,
i was like these shits are legal they are no good, i wouldnt even eat my thyroid medicine,
well one day i had a wicked migraine, this chick flowed me a vicodan
went home swallowed the pill with some water, , went in my room turned off the lights , and was like whoa this feels great

so are migraines a gateway drug ?
 
I have wanted to see the world another way since i was 12. ive wanted to try acid since than, so i started with weed, than alcohol, than oxycotin, than xanax, than shrooms, than Dxm, than ecstacy, than hyrdocotin than, aderal, ridilen. so yes it is a gate way. after you smoke weed you feel like you can take any drug on.... but thats because i have an addictive personality... most ppl stick to weed. now after getting out there i found that weed is safer less risky more enjoable and easily controled. stick to weed guys really. ps im 19 now and smoked when i was 13
 
GodricNightfall said:
chemically and physically no but psycologially yes because it itroduces you to an altered state of mind that makes you want to see all the differnt types but most people have drank before smoking weed which does the same thing so the government fucks cant use weed alone as the gateway drug. whatever you first altered state of mind drug you tried...thats your gaetway.

"From the dawn of our species, man's been blessed with curiosity."
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This is true...
 
the whole gateway discussion is opinion based

I started drinking in high school and by the end i was into a little tobacco use but primarily alcohol. Got to college and started smoking weed, 2nd year of college started smoking weed on the reg and still drinking on the weekends. I feel like weed is a gateway drug in the way that it opens up your mind and your thinking and makes you less worried about the small things and more open to other drugs because you want to explore the outer limits of your mind. Which is were other drugs come in. Ive tried shrooms, mdma, acid, cocaine and can say that ive had a lot of good experiences with drugs. I know my limits and make sure that i don't go over them. So in a way i believe marijuana is a gateway drug but in the same way that any drug is a gateway drug...ESPECIALLY alcohol, if anyone talks about gateway drugs alcohol and tobacco should definitly be in the discussion.
 
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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Great movie.

In general, we try anything out of curiosity. A rollercoaster, drugs, a new food... We might do a little research on it if we are worried, but we say "this sounds okay, let's try it".

We try said noun or verb and if we like it, we keep doing it and may try something similar to the thing we like (for instance, if we like a metal rollercoaster, we'll try a wooden one).

If we do not like it, we will do one of two things: we will either stop that type of thing right then and there and not try anything similar (we won't try the wooden rollercoaster if we get sick from the metal one); or we might try something that is very much different from the thing we have tried and found to not like (like riding the swings at the amusement park if we find we didn't like the metal rollercoaster).

This same sense of reasoning can be applied to the use of drugs (over a span of time, in some cases; the separate or combined use of drugs is not always instantaneous).
 
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Weed introduces you to the "drug world" on some level. Making other drugs an actual option when it wasn't before. There's nothing magic about cannabis that makes you more likely to seek out other highs though, that whole idea is just retarded.
 
nearjat said:
Weed introduces you to the "drug world" on some level. Making other drugs an actual option when it wasn't before. There's nothing magic about cannabis that makes you more likely to seek out other highs though, that whole idea is just retarded.
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Unless weed isn't your first drug.
 
Yes, but less than caffeine, certainly less than nicotine.


Theres no comparison. Whats more similar to smoking crack?

Smoking a bowl and watching a movie,
or
Endlessly chasing miniature dopamine flashes with a cancer stick.


And yes, I smoke both.
 
I believe that the only reason marijuana can be considered a gateway drug is because of the fact that it is still illegal. IF it were legalized, it would be available in stores, and i believe that less people would be buying it from drug dealers. I believe that removing marijuana from the same environment as other more-harmful substances would cut back on the number of people claiming they only tried these other substances because of pot. In my experience, and from what I have observed in the people around me, most adolescents start off with marijuana, and i believe that when they realize that it's not as bad as all those D.A.R.E classes claimed they start to wonder if it's the same way with other substances.

I wasn't even allowed to take D.A.R.E in school, but that's another story. :)
 
It really depends on what you make it ., Like for me i was smoking for about 3 years then i went to Molly and i haven't been smoking to much anymore so its all about personal decision.....8)
 
If your moral code tells you that you shouldn't smoke marijuana and you violate it by indulging anyway, and you continue to smoke pot, then you are likely to want to raise the ante, so to speak, and see what another drug will do to take you further away from your guilt that you are violating your own wisdom. In that way, there is no doubt that marijuana is a gateway drug. <no commercial rehab links posted in multiple places. Its spam like behavior>
 
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