it depends on how you look at this so called gateway....

is the gateway true? i believe so, is it like authorities and anti-weed people make it out to be? hell no...

but you can't deny weed is usually the first drug people try.. (aside from cigs or alcohol) and way more often then not, before someone's drug career is over they will have done more than weed... it's how you think of the word...

to me this gateway, is just an expansion fo the mind, and 100% normal.... it's only natural to want to experiement as i've said before... however, the govt. sees this gateway, as more of an on ramp.... they see it like you smoke weed, and eventually you'll move to harder drugs AND stay on those harder drugs.... which is far from true...

i don't disagree that weed definately opens a door to a whole new world, infact ot say otherwise imo seems more like defensive statement, just to go against what the govt. says... and dispell other myths...

this of course is all imo... i dunno how many share my view....