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

i definitely think that it has more to do with the personality of the person than anything. If you try weed, its because you want to feel different from what you usually feel and thats the reason why people do drugs in the first place. If a young person was in a place where they couldnt get marijuana, if such a place existed, and there was a different drug around that people they knew did as an escape, well then it would be that drug they did and not marijuana. Therefore, if you have an urge to alter your mind, whatever substance you take first is the gateway. Its the decision to engage in escapism, not the actual substance involved, that makes you even more prone to experiment
 
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Weed is a gateway to happiness. Alcohol is what mare me try other drugs. I also think it is the most harmful drug out there and can get it anywhere at any age.
 
higher than you said:
Weed is a gateway to happiness. Alcohol is what mare me try other drugs. I also think it is the most harmful drug out there and can get it anywhere at any age.
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I agree with this. Alcohol is dangerous and highly addictive. Looking back it is kind of crazy to think about how easy it was to get as a teenager. I was lucky to have parents who actually talked to me about drugs (I'm including alcohol) instead of pretending they didn't exist and/or that I wasn't going to try them. I'll always be grateful to them for that.
 
higher than you said:
Weed is a gateway to happiness. Alcohol is what mare me try other drugs. I also think it is the most harmful drug out there and can get it anywhere at any age.
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I agree to a degree (rhyme!). I wouldn't really call alcohol the most harmful drug out there though. It's definitly the most harmful depressent out there, but I don't think it's more dangerous then a lot of uppers. Alcohol does suck though, and I find it more addictive then many uppers (more then amphetamine and methyphenidate, less then meth, crack and powder cocaine).

But yeah, fuck alcohol.
 
Weed is easier to obtain than most drugs, so therefore the statistics lead people to think weed is a gateway drug. I don't believe it is.

I first got buzzed on caffeine, got drunk on Southern Discomfort, then smoked weed. Weed was more fun and enlightening than these. I then tried cough syrup, a little bit o' meth and finally mushrooms and acid. Having no consistent hookups for good psychedelics, I stuck with weed, since it has mind-manifesting properties.

Ever since I heard about psychedelics, I have wanted to experience them. This predates any of my actual drug experiences. My personal gateway to drug use began with curiosity, not pot.

Unfortunately, not being able to smoke weed led me to try cigarettes, and I'm reliant upon them even to this day. So it was the *lack* of pot which led me to another drug in this case.
 
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I think it all boils down to personality and traits... some people are more susceptible than others, and considering most drugs can be used relatively safely if proper care is taken, as well as knowing one's limits. Weed is everyone's first (illegal) drug because cannabis culture isn't as retracted and secretive as is harder drugs'.

I know for a fact that weed didn't get me into my vices, but from experience it got me acquainted with the right people to have easy access to other drugs. For example when I started smoking dope on a daily basis, I met a lot of people who had a few pills on them to sell, then came the time where my friends would sit down and snort a few lines of speed... weed isn't a gateway drug per se, IMHO, but it's a fact that most drug users also smoke weed, and that makes it easier for someone who only smokes weed to get familiar with other drugs...
 
I Don't think its a gateway drug in you'll smoke it get bored then go shoot some heroin. More in the way it gets you involved in the whole scene.

My first ever pill came through a friend I made at my weed dealers house, he calls me up one day asks if I want a few so I figured what the hell he's a pretty cool guy they can't be that bad.

Boom 5 yeas later i've munched more than my fair share of pills / acid / mushrooms / all kinda crazy shit I shouldn't have. All through contacts I made through that guy...

But saying that, if I didn't smoke weed I probably woouldn't have took the pill so carefree..
 
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I Don't think its a gateway drug in you'll smoke it get bored then go shoot some heroin. More in the way it gets you involved in the whole scene.

My first ever pill came through a friend I made at my weed dealers house, he calls me up one day asks if I want a few so I figured what the hell he's a pretty cool guy they can't be that bad.

Boom 5 yeas later i've munched more than my fair share of pills / acid / mushrooms / all kinda crazy shit I shouldn't have. All through contacts I made through that guy...

But saying that, if I didn't smoke weed I probably woouldn't have took the pill so carefree..
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I concur. Smoking weed and just hanging out with people who smoke got me involved in the scene. I still think calling weed a gateway drug is resting the blame on the wrong thing... it still boils down to influence. Ultimately, weed doesn't make one crave the harder drugs, but being influenced by peers can sure start to speed on a downward spiral to the bottom of the barrel.
 
Prohibition is the gateway. Weed is illegal, and when you start smoking, you're not exactly on the good side of the law anymore, so, fuck it, now that you're in this forbidden territory, why not go further? The only arguments against doing that, assuming you wanted to do it, would be the potentially massive lifestyle changes that could very well go the wrong way, and potential health problems, from mindless/uninformed (over)use. Unfortunately the behemoth that is legality really overshadows those considerations, and prohibition causing the spread of propaganda and misinformation about drugs often leads people to disregard any information, even when it's objective and unbiased, that they hear relating to potential harm and how to reduce said harm caused by substances, which undermines the latter consideration. Fortunately we have resources like BL and Erowid.

If the gateway drug theory did hold any water, alcohol would be the ultimate gateway drug.
 
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any drug can be a "gateway drug" basically w/e the first drug u try cause then ur gonna say woah the govt parents were totally lieing about the shit so i guess that everything isnt as bad as they say.
thats how a young mind works.
 
It annoys me when people call marijuana a "gateway drug". I don't see how people can't understand that if people already have the disposition to try drugs, they're probably going to try weed anyway early on because it's easy to get. But that doesn't mean that there aren't people who do coke and meth and other things who've never smoked weed. It's more about the fact that you're open to getting high and trying new things, marijuana included.
 
weed just makes you realize drugs in general arent that harmful if you arent a fucking idiot and know how to control yourself with them. when i started smoking i told myself 100 times i would never do anything else, now im looking like crazy to find some shrooms/lucy.
 
The only way I see dope as a gateway drug in my life was the people it lead me to hang out with. I always have dope so when I go to parties, I will always find people to toke up with and with that lifestyle, it was inevitable that I would be offered something else eventually, in my case, MDMA. Which I now love :)
 
i think that weed makes some people too lazy/anti social to go public and use party drugs for example, so this is quite the opposite effect and without weed hald the people who smoke it would start with some other drug anyways.. so i think that whole gateway drug thing is pretty lame...
 
sort of but not

I think weed is not a gateway drug, but it does introduce you to people who supply other drugs which can be dangerous. Ive tried pretty much everthing but they were all very temporary compared to weed. I think each person has a drug which suits them the most and you might have to try a few first. I know so many people who tried other drugs first and now smoke weed exclusively, does that make those drugs a gateway to weed? Its all just personal choice.
 
i think i saw an argument on a pot documentary that weed is a gateway drug because its illegal. typically dealers who sell pot either sell other drugs as well or have connections to obtain other drugs. being that pot is viewed as harmless for the most part, its usually the first or second drug that people get into, and every nearly every stoner i know has tried atleast one other drug since they started smoking(myself included) i would say yes.

i think most pot heads are in denial. the love of the herb is the love of getting high, and pot isnt the only drug that will get you high. and even if it isnt a the gateway to drugs, smoking it on the daily will build a lot of habits/mindset that will make becoming a junkie alot easier than not smoking. atleast ime.
 
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