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

I don't personally believe weed is a "gate-way" drug at all. When it comes to me weed was like, the third or forth drug that I tried. My list went something like this:

• Nicotine, in the form of a cigarette.
• Alcohol.
• Opiates, in the form of vicodin.
THEN..
• Marijuana.

....I had the chance to try herb earlier on, but I didn't feel like it. I didn't want to smoke weed, until after my first episode with opiates, actually. Like, I did the opiates, and was like "damn, this is amazing!" Then the next day, one of my friends had some weed and was like "wanna try it?" So naturally, I was down.

What I DO think though, is that if someone first tries marijuana, it COULD possibly lead them to experiment with other drugs, because they MIGHT have the thought of "well, if smoking weed makes me feel like this, then I wonder what [drug] would make me feel like..."

And then they try something else. I hope that makes sense. It all made sense in my head. But if not, whatever. Fuck it.
 
I don't have time to read all the posts in the thread, but IMO weed is not a gateway drug, it's the fact that you're buying off a dealer who will eventually offer you something different.
 
its amazing how many people think that "Well if weeds a gateway drug then so are cigarettes and alcohol" is a valid argument or answer to this question. yes, theyre all classified as gateway drugs. That also has nothing to do with the question.

That and the people who keep saying weeds not a gateway drug, i smoked for a year and all it did was make me wonder what E and coke were like.
 
absolutely. my reasoning for this is because most non druggies see weed as the least harmful drug, which it may be, and some more ignorant people see weed as harmless and healthy for the body. These are the people that start smoking weed. And once you have done one drug and are sober again you think "Well that drug didnt hurt my body that much and it is REALLY FUN!" so why not do more drugs? That was certainly the case in my life. MY friend got me to do weed, I had always wanted to try. Then I did amphetamines and LSD, and rolled later on for my first time. Ahhhh i love drugs
 
everything is a gateway drug ....mine was alcohol, everybody smokes weed or drinks first, its wuts most exseccable, i know a whole lot of kids younger than me that there gateway drug was dxm
 
I think there is a correlation between weed and other drugs. But I don't think weed CAUSES experimentation.

Here's how I think it is. John has an intrinsic curiosity. This inherit trait makes him want to try drugs, and the most easily available and the (seemingly) least dangerous drug is marijuana, so he starts with that. After a while his curiosity comes back and he wants to try something new, so he tries, say, ecstasy. And then coke, and so on.

But the weed isn't a catalyst or anything, it's just a step in the ladder.
 
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Let me get this strait, weed is not a gateway drug, but it introduces you to other drugs?
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no i said weed introduces u to people who supply other drugs, it is ur fuckin choice whether u take them or not, which is why weed is not a gateway drug because i still just smoke weed and drink beer, even though ive been offered everything else, learn to read before u post. :) if weed was a gateway drug i would have left it behind and would be a junkie on the streets now shootin up.
 
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weed is not a gateway drug. alcohol or caffeine fit that bill better than marijuana does. weed is a crutch that can be used to cope with any number of situations. ive never tried coke, e, h, meth, or any opiate, research chemical, etc. and ive been smoking weed for almost six years.

"i smoked weed and nothing happened, therefore i'm invincible to drugs!" was quite the opposite of my logic. quite the opposite, actually, as it familiarized me with the cycle of anticipation, intoxication, and, then of course coming down. this, in combination with the understanding thats how all drugs work, left me with the obvious choice of sticking with weed.
 
i believe that IF you get the impulse to try weed, that impulse could be triggered for any drug, all depending on your "morals" or "logistics" of the drug/situation.

I could've skipped weed and went straight to pills. Pills would be my "gateway" drug.

if you start on bud, you're tolerance will get high eventually and you might wanna try to get MORE fucked up from something else.

but if i started on SPEED, what would pot be to me?

idk
 
It is a normal human desire to tweak their perceptions of reality.

MJ may be a gateway because it is illegal and taboo. I think that some people cross a threshold into illegal activity (MJ smoking) and they continue on that journey with other drugs. The same could be said for underaged drinking or underaged cig smoking too. I believe it is more of a societal effect than a product of mind altering themes.
 
I think the whole idea of a 'gate-way' drug is completely fucking stupid, and you lot who are saying other drugs are gate-way drugs are just as bad as the people claiming weed is a gate-way drug.

You can classify drugs as addictive, non-addictive, stimulant, depressant ect. But how can you call one a gateway drug, a drug that causes you to use other drugs. Fucking stupid. The whole idea is stupid.

When someone first uses a drug there is alot of things that are responsible for this. And when people use weed and end up on harder drugs, but they credit weed for kinda giving them the idea, this is much more to do with culture and society than it does the drug itself.

Perhaps someone tripped out abit when they first smoked some bongs, and became curious about psychedelics such as psilocybe mushrooms and LSD. Why would it be because weed is a gate-way drug? Dosn't it make more sense that cannabis is a psychedelic and opened person's mind to altered state and psychedelics in general? Or that when kids start on weed and end up on harder illegal drugs, its not because weed magically makes them wanna experiment, but because simply cannabis happens to be the most abundant illegal drug around, by the time people come across a source for harder drugs usually they are quite used to the whole illegal drug obtaining and consuming deal..

Any psychedelic dosed would have this effect, as in you take one drug and inevitably become curious about the rest. So its stupid to specifically look at weed as some gateway drug. Purely based on the fact that in our society and culture you're much more likely to use cannabis before any other illegal substances. Anyways the psychedelic bit is just an example. I think you guys understand my point, that is so fucking STUPID to claim that x drug is a gateway drug because it was used before y drug was and so on. Like people saying no, cannabis isnt a gateway drug, caffeine and booze are. What the fuck did caffeine honestly have to do with you're first drink? Know what i mean, i bet you didnt even realise you were taking a drug when you first had caffeine.

So stupid the whole gateway drug theory. Idiots claiming no this is a gateway drug because i did it before MJ. lol. Do you guys actually even THINK about shit?

But even more stupid, is to claim any drug is a gateway drug. Had alot more to say but it has slipped my stoned mind.
 
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I think that the gateway theory is bullshit but that people who smoke weed are more likely to try other drugs because people who smoke weed are the openminded people who question what they are told and want to try new things. It makes sense that if you try drug A and have fun youll probably want to try drug B, the only reason weed is called a gateway drug is because it is so available everywhere it usually happens to be the first illegal drug that people try.
 
Weed is not a gateway drug. I hate hate and fucking hate how anti-drug people use the argument that since meth addicts(or any other type addict) used weed first it mean that weed is a gateway drug. Thats like saying apple sause is a gateway to fastfood since most kids have eaten apple sause before a bigmac. Most people smoke cigs and try alcohol before weed but not allot of people call them a gateway drug
There is nothing in weed that magicly makes you start doing other drugs. Any drug that is the first one someone trys first what ever it is has the possibility of makeing them curious about doing other drugs but it is their personal decision not the drug that make them experiment with other drugs . A drug that is easly avable and safe has a greater chance of being the first drug some one trys.
 
Marijuana being a ''Gateway Drug" is more of just a phrase put out by the media to get people to follow there bullshit, its an attention grabber for ignorant people who believe everything they hear, which is the majority so it works out in there favor.

Is it a gateway drug though, absolutely not, the life style that comes along with it is the gateway, if you start smoking pot your gonna most likely start chilling with people who smoke, start going to party's with people who smoke, and were theres people who smoke usually theres booze, and of course depending on the situation your gonna see someone doing something else, maybe doing coke or taking E, what ever it may be, maybe you meet someone, you dont touch anything for awhile, but after a period of time you see other people doing other drugs and you think to your self to try it, thats were the gateway just happened, you didnt start smoking and have some urge to go blow a line because you want to get a better high, or i guess maybe some do everyone is different, but its more of environment then anything else, you walk in to a barber shop enough times your eventually going to get your hair cut.

And dont get me wrong there's all sorts of people who smoke pot for ever and never go off in to other things, but in all reality most people at least try other things, because you get exposed to many other drugs when you start any using any substance and getting involved with the life style. Also if you look at the statistics alcohol and tobacco are the real gateway drug.
 
human curiosity is the gateway to drugs. there is no gateway drug.

best gateway to drugs is your parents liquor cabinet or medicine cabinet as a kid, and all the advertisements you see.
 
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