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Weed gate way drug?

In a economic sense weed is a dangerous drug for dealers. It is bulky, smells & you make far less profit per weight. Alcohol with the social situations it presents & how intoxicating it is has been a gateway to far more people I have known than weed ever will be.
 
For me it was MDMA first, friend said it was like caffeine but different, oh how wrong he was, hahaha. to be young and stupid.
 
I started with alcohol, but I'm assuming a "gateway drug" is something that gets you into doing illegal drugs, which alcohol isn't in most countries. I did MDMA as my first illegal drug. My friends who habitually smoke weed jokingly say to me that I broke down the gates and went straight to MDMA.
 
Adderall had to have been the first "drug" I ever experimented with, that and cigarettes. I didn't start smoking weed until I had already tried alcohol, cocaine/crack, vicodin, and shrooms. So no, weed wasn't even close as a gateway drug for me.

On the flip side, I had plenty of friends who's first was weed and they all went from there. It really just depends on the person and situation at the time, a drug is a drug. A lot of people try pot first because it's so easily accessible and the risks are slim to none so it makes sense that people would experiment with pot first before things like say Heroin.
 
Weed can definitely be a gateway drug. Problem is, so can every other substance we know of. The focus is on cannabis as "THE" gateway drug because it's so prevalent, so common even amongst the youngest, most vulnerable members of our society.

Honestly, weed is definitely A gateway drug. I mean, I've seen on this thread people saying that using marijuana makes you more open-minded to trying other illegal substances and then they go on to say that it's not a gateway drug. (Side-note: What do gates do? They open and give you access to areas previously inaccessible. There's a connection here.) A positive experience with marijuana is likely to diminish many younger peoples reservations about trying other drugs under logic similar to "Well, they said it would turn me insane after a hit, I just smoked a blunt and feel GREAT. I bet they lied to us about [insert random substance here] too, maybe that feels even better?"


I just feel like marijuana and every other drug can be coined a "gateway drug," I just don't view that with a negative connotation. I'm all for responsible drug use so I truthfully don't view the willingness to educate yourself and try other psychoactive substances you may be interested in as a bad thing. At the very least it's a neutral situation in my mind. The scale doesn't tip one way or another until a person loses sight of the whole responsible drug use thing (which I admit can and does happen).
 
Jibult said:
Weed can definitely be a gateway drug. Problem is, so can every other substance we know of. The focus is on cannabis as "THE" gateway drug because it's so prevalent, so common even amongst the youngest, most vulnerable members of our society.

Honestly, weed is definitely A gateway drug. I mean, I've seen on this thread people saying that using marijuana makes you more open-minded to trying other illegal substances and then they go on to say that it's not a gateway drug. (Side-note: What do gates do? They open and give you access to areas previously inaccessible. There's a connection here.) A positive experience with marijuana is likely to diminish many younger peoples reservations about trying other drugs under logic similar to "Well, they said it would turn me insane after a hit, I just smoked a blunt and feel GREAT. I bet they lied to us about [insert random substance here] too, maybe that feels even better?"


I just feel like marijuana and every other drug can be coined a "gateway drug," I just don't view that with a negative connotation. I'm all for responsible drug use so I truthfully don't view the willingness to educate yourself and try other psychoactive substances you may be interested in as a bad thing. At the very least it's a neutral situation in my mind. The scale doesn't tip one way or another until a person loses sight of the whole responsible drug use thing (which I admit can and does happen).
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Nice post.


Weed was without a doubt the gateway drug for me.

Sure I tried tobacco and alcohol but never had a problem with either nor did I have the desire to want to try other things. But after 35 years of being "drug free" I got turned onto weed for chronic insomnia and while it started off as something that I used for sleep I did enjoy the high. After a year of daily use the weed high began to bore me and I started mixing in benzos then opiates.
 
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