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

It eventually turned me into an addicted, antisocial burnout so I had to compensate for those effects during college by taking cocaine and mdma in order to be able to party. Since I am not an anxious pussy when I am off pot (I have since quit), I doubt I would have been drawn to the hard drugs as much if I had never been a dope fiend. It also made me question reality a whole lot which arguably got me into psychs. However, weed also made me really hate alcohol because it made me more aware of the horrible damage it does to the body and mind, and I rarely drink anymore. I also do not regret trying hard drugs because I had a great time and never abused, and I definately do not regret taking psychs because the inner peace and higher sense of self awareness I got from mushrooms has never left me. Smoking weed affected me the worst of all when I was high, but I have since become a better person because of it and do not regret trying it.
 
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Marijuana is NOT a gateway drug. I started smoking weed when I was 11 and noticed that my social anXiety went away everytime. My grades in school went up as it allowed me to focus, it overall made me more sociable and less nervous. I have had issues with depression and anxiety and sheer nervousness my entire life and weed eliminated all of that. And it made sex better too.

It was like a medicine to me. I didn't smoke cigarettes, drink, pills or any other drug for years. I refused any invitation to any of that stuff. Smoke weed and stay Drug Free. That was my motto. It wasn't until I got hurt real bad from a skateboarding accident when I was 17 that I tried a actual drug. Vicodin. I refused to take any for the first few days, but I was in so much effing pain that I had to take them just to be able to walk without excruciating pain.

It was then that I discovered Narcotics. I LOVED IT!!!! I loved it more than weed. After that I would try anything. Then I was fuckin around with OC's, Morphine, H, MDMA, Meth, Booze and whatever else you have. So it was DRUGS that were a gateway drug for me. ACTUAL DRUGS. Hydrocodone is a drug. Not weed.

Or you could say sketching behind a car on a skateboard going 40 miles an hour leading to a series of abrasions and broken bones was a gateway drug.
 
NO, I think it is not. Addiction is a genetic disease, if you are predetermined to be at risk, then you are at risk. pot doesn't change that or make it worse.

Pot can be a quasi gateway drug imo because once you learn that the government, teachers, ect lied about marijuana maybe they lied about lsd(yes), mushrooms(yes), cocaine(not really), ect. and smoking pot puts you in contact with people that could be using other drugs. So it could put you in a situation with addictive drugs.

So no in a well informed person, I don't believe pot will for sure lead anyone into doing harder drugs. But it can put you in a position that you have to decide if you want to try other drugs. That being said you can always randomly come across other drugs without every trying pot, or get hooked on vicoden from a dr and end up doing heroin.

SO be careful and learn as much as you can before ever trying any substances at all
 
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."
 
My short story and take on this subject

I havent read any of the other posts in this thread.

I smoked some cigs, and then smoked weed, then drank, now i cant smoke weed for the time being and now i am experimenting with oxys. I am i runner for my school so i keep my self from smoking cigs close to season time so i dip instead. In the past four months i have gotten oxycodone, hydrocodone, concerta, and adderall because i feel the need to have some high to be satisfied. (not prescribed to the concerta or adderall)
I think that weed is not a gateway drug for people who are satisfied with everyday life. I think that it is for people who continually want more from everything, including highs.
(one way to look at it, may not be yours)

I think this question should be one that one asks themselves, not one that someone asks you.

This is my outtake on this subject, and if you can control yourself with hard drugs than what i said doesnt apply to you.
 
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Yeah I guess it depends on how you wanna look at unsafe, I mostly meant as far as health effects go, because vaporized there arent any to really worry about other than short term memory, but I do absoultly agree that it has potential to cause harm in other ways when put in the hands of irresponsible people, I suppose harmless wasnt quite the right word.
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I believe it to have more of a beneficial role medically and spiritually. :)
 
gateway theory is bs

i smoked for yrs before i started doin drugs. and every time i tried something new i was partying and already fucked up on alcohol. then a pattern emerges. whatever drugs i was doing always left me with a bigger appetite and fucked up and willing to do more drugs.

plus its fucked up that pot is schedule 1 and meth,coke, pcp, etc are shcedule 2. so it can be a gateway to less dangerous drugs?
 
^That's not what the schedules mean. Schedule I means it has no accepted medical use, II that it is medically useful but easily abused. Harmful drugs can be medicines and harmless ones medically useless. Cannabis is medically useful, of course, but that's another issue.

I also don't follow the logic of your post. You say you don't believe the gateway theory, but then that doing some drugs increased your propensity to do others...that seems like a direct contradiction to me.
 
Nope, since I was a youngster, I always wanted to explore my inner mental workings and regions of my mind I never knew I existed. Plus I think its safe to say, we all started with caffeine, or tobbacco or alcohol.

Smoke weed for the rest of my life.
 
If anything is a gateway drug it's alcohol. Get a few beers in me and I'll try anything. I never got courage to go the extra mile and explore new drugs by simply getting high from weed.
 
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Weed? A gateway drug? Hasn't the entire drug comminity realized that all that was pure propaganda bullshit?

Recent studies have shown that being a child in a single parent household leads to more hard drug abuse than cannabis ever could.

Shit, my first recreational drug ever was LSD. It was a gateway of sorts, but not to other highs. THAT gateway came from prescription meds and some bullshit that real life likes to pull.=D
 
I had vicodins first because they were easy to get. I then tried weed because I realized if they were lying about pills in dare (this was in 7th grade) I should try weed. Weed then opened my mind to psychadelics, which I have yet to try and really want to.I say whatever drug you start with is a gateway drug. Alcohol's the same way, you could say beer is a gateway to vodka and whisky, but not everyone always starts with beer.
 
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