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Just was wondering some people's opinions on if marijuana is a gateway drug. I think it might make you a little more open minded to illegal substances, but I've never smoked weed then decided I was gonna try meth... So my answer would be no, I dont consider it a gateway.
 
I smoked my first cigarette when I was 6 years old (wanted to be like dad). Alcohol I tried before opiates but never liked it. Opiates was the first drug I did regularly to get high, started smoking regularly after that.
 
Alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco were my first for sure when I was like 12 ish. I went to coke then weed afterwards. In my case, weed was not the gateway drug.
 
I don't believe weed is a gateway drug by any means. In my experience most weed dealers sell weed & most "chem" dealers sell a variety of drugs. Alcohol is the worst gateway drug because it is so prevalent & socially acceptable. When drinking I have made some of the most irresponsible decisions of my life & that includes certain drugs I would not have accessed if I was not drunk.
 
For some people it can be and in my case it was. If you start off by smoking weed then you'll become more open minded to the idea of doing other illegal drugs. You may also get bored of the same high from weed and want to try something new. Also your weed dealer may deal other drugs or you may end up meeting other dealers who sell other drugs through your current weed dealer. That's what happened with me anyway so for me it was a gateway drug.
 
Weed "can" be a gateway drug, but only because of what the war on drugs has done to society.

For one, the lies told about weed are much more radical and extreme, so once you are exposed to marijuana first hand and the lies are exposed your beliefs about all drugs come into question, even valid fears and concerns.

And two, you are forced to enter the black market and possibly associate with career criminals who are more likely to be experienced with other drugs and you could be exposed to harder drugs through the same channels.

Or three, its the first mind altering substance you have ever taken and enjoyed. I would say, by definition, whatever the first psychotropic substance you ingested and enjoyed for hedonistic use was your gateway drug. Whether it be n02, cigarettes, alcohol, pain pills, your add medication.

But there is nothing intrinsic about marijuana which would cause to to compulsively seek out other drugs of abuse without reasoned thought.
 
well weed introduces you to the black market, but imo alch is THE gateway drug. its cheap, easy to get, is strong and effects you close to instantly. it has all the attributes of downers but also acts as a stim first before the alch actually starts to depress your system. so you get a variety of effects from it.
 
'medicine cabinet' said:
well weed introduces you to the black market, but imo alch is THE gateway drug. its cheap, easy to get, is strong and effects you close to instantly. it has all the attributes of downers but also acts as a stim first before the alch actually starts to depress your system. so you get a variety of effects from it.
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Alcohol is the gateway drug only due to availability. I actually researched all about every drug before ever taking a recreational drug. If given the chance to try any I would have started with something stronger than either of those.
 
the whole idea is flawed. everything you do influences what you're going to do next, including pot. i just dont see why pot is believed to be the "gateway" drug because most people start with cigarettes and alcoholl!! sure pot can lead to other drugs, but all drugs lead to other drugs. its all about self control, which if you dont have, you shouldnt really be using drugs anyways.

people get addicted to prescription oxycodone, and are pushed into using black market drugs like heroin to feed their addiction once the prescription is done. Painkillers are WAY more of a "gateway" drug than pot, because it actually makes sense.

Pot ---> ??? ---> all other hard drugs, OR Tylenol -> Tylenol 3's -> Codine -> Oxycodone -> Morphine -> Heroin. Which is the real "gateway drug".
 
I have two completely different opinions that will seem completely stupid to you but i'll throw them.

1)Marijuana IS a gate drug,because you will meet BALLS a lot of people especially if you go to parties etc,and if you smoke weed for a long time,you will eventually get bored of the high and seek something stronger.You might start taking lsd,shrooms or anything

2)Marijuana ISN'T a gate drug,because you can get into drugs by anything!For example,i got into drugs by a lucid dreaming post on 9gag.I started searching for OBEs,Lucid dreaming,and eventually got into heavy dmt use and lately in Heroin use.So 9gag brought lucid dreaming,lucid dreaming brought the deep web,the deep web brought LSD and dmt ,and generally drug use.
 
i started smoking cigarettes daily before i ever smoked weed. i had no idea what weed really was but my friend insisted that we try it together for the first time. i loved it but never thought about doing anything else. i was 14 at the time. i started hanging out with other stoners and a particular group was into mdma at the time. i researched the fuck out of it and decided to give it a try, but i told myself i wouldn't do it again or any other drug. mainly because i read into how relatively safe mdma is. i feel like i've never been the same person since that roll. in a bad way. like it induced social anxiety or something, maybe because of how young i was, idk. i saw a lot of them get into coke and bars and end up in rehab so i decided to stay away from that stuff.

since i turned 19 (21 now), i've tried almost everything besides meth and crack. gotten addicted to heroin, almost lost myself with lucy, rolled way too many times, etc. i believe weed may open your willingness to try other stuff, but i believe your influences are the strongest factor.

like imagine if i only ever hung out with stoners who were anti-everything and never had access to other stuff. like the main reason i got addicted to heroin was because of such easy access. i was getting paid $20 a day to drive my friend to pick up. after like 8 times i was like shit man, grab me a sack too.

it's really a hard question, because i start to think... "well damn lsd was the shit, i wonder what shrooms is like?" then it's "well now i wanna know what dmt is like..." like once you get into a class of drugs, you wanna try it all.

but weed is the only "drug" that is non-toxic, trustable, and reliable. almost everything else is like russian roulette...
 
My view is yes because it interests you in altered consciousness. alcohol and ciggarettes lead to pot which leads to otc and psychs which lead to cocaine pills etc. I have never, once, met someone who pot wasn't a gatewag drug for. Does everyone try everything, or does a joint lead to a meth habit like an oprah special..no...but the whole beatles classic rock grateful dead sterotype is usually correct.

Why do I think this. well you smoke pot. you and your friends get blazed then to a stoner a bag of shrooms is like takin it up a level for a holiday or something. so you try it. then its groovy. then u try acid etc etc.

I disagred with the availabiliy/dealer argument. Because dealers get what they think their customers want. That whole dichotomy of dealer/pusherman. Plus similar gateway progressions have existed before shrooms were accessible or cops knee what pot smelled like. I've read a jerry garcia interview where him and his friends smoked pot and did speed cuz it was the norm. they had acess to peyote buttons and those were nothing compared to being on speed for 5 days. none of the grateful dead started using heroin until middle age and the cocaine they used was for economic purposes to stay awake for cheap, like the lyrics to truckin.

People always want to alter their conscousness cuz life sucks, but you just hear about pot at a young age cuz its relatively harmless. so who knows.
 
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For me it was, once I smoked weed I was open to getting high on anything (though I started for self medication purposes due to depression). I remember the friends I started smoking weed with said they got some hydros, and we all popped them at school, and after that there wasn't any pill I wouldn't take. It seems like it opens people minds too much, since the war on drugs does make it look so bad. Sitting in class watching those shitty anti drug presentations talking about how weed would ruin your life ruined all credibility.
But, there are some stoners I know that would never touch another substance. I think it all comes down to what you want, like the reason for taking drugs in the first place. In my experience, I started smoking for self medication, which led me to get into pills and other harder drugs..but to a kid smoking at parties for fun, I know a lot of people like that who wouldn't touch another drug. They don't chase the high.

so i guess it comes down to the reason you're smoking in my opinion
 
alcohol is a gateway drug, if there even is such a thing as a 'gateway' drug.

more stupid shit gets done after a few drinks as opposed to a few tokes.
 
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