nope pots not a gateway drug the real gateway drug is cigs we were smoking cigs as kids before I even knew what pot was it depends on the person if your going to be a crackhead or methhead your going to be a crackhead or methhead from birth it has nothing to do with if you smoked weed before its all your dna.I know people who only smoked weed once and moved on to pcp it had nothing to do with weed .