a question i thought of while high

[beachguy in thongs]

so last night i got to thinking... i mean everyone who smokes weed knows that it's not bad, and definitely not any worse than alcohol. remember when we were younger and they told us it was the "gateway drug" and we'd probably end up in rehab or dead if we ever used it? so my question is, do the cops and people who say marijuana is so bad actually believe all the stuff they're saying? no one can deny that stoners are like the happiest and most peaceful people around... so do anti-drug people just spout this stuff or do they actually think it's that bad? is this making sense??

My step-father was a police officer in a city in upstate New York, that shall remain nameless (Amsterdam), in (I think) the 70's. He told me, nearly, the whole police force smoked Herb.

In Virginia, the police have said that the marijuana offenders are not the ones we should be looking at.

beachguy in thongs Reviewed by beachguy in thongs on 01-14-2006. a question i thought of while high so last night i got to thinking... i mean everyone who smokes weed knows that it's not bad, and definitely not any worse than alcohol. remember when we were younger and they told us it was the "gateway drug" and we'd probably end up in rehab or dead if we ever used it? so my question is, do the cops and people who say marijuana is so bad actually believe all the stuff they're saying? no one can deny that stoners are like the happiest and most peaceful people around... so do anti-drug people Rating: 5

[beachguy in thongs]

Weed is such a gateway drug but it also depends on the personality

Marijuana Myths, Claim No. 13

CLAIM #13:
MARIJUANA IS A "GATEWAY" TO THE USE OF OTHER DRUGS

Advocates of marijuana prohibition claim that even if marijuana itself causes minimal harm, it is a dangerous substance because it leads to the use of "harder drugs" such as heroin, LSD, and cocaine.

THE FACTS

Most users of heroin, LSD and cocaine have used marijuana. However, most marijuana users never use another illegal drug.

Over time, there has been no consistent relationship between the use patterns of various drugs. 83

As marijuana use increased in the 1960s and 1970s, heroin use declined. And, when marijuana use declined in the 1980s, heroin use remained fairly stable.

For the past 20 years, as marijuana use-rates fluctuated, the use of LSD hardly changed at all.

Cocaine use increased in the early 1980s as marijuana use was declining. During the late 1980s, both marijuana and cocaine declined. During the last few years, cocaine use has continued to decline as marijuana use has increased slightly.

In 1994, less than 16% of high school seniors who had ever tried marijuana had ever tried cocaine - the lowest percentage ever recorded. In fact, as shown below, the proportion of marijuana users trying cocaine has declined steadily since 1986, when a high of more than 33% was recorded.

Proportion of Marijuana Users Ever Trying Cocaine

High School Seniors, 1975-1994 84

1975: 19% 1980: 27% 1985: 31% 1990: 22%
1976: 19% 1981: 28% 1986: 33% 1991: 22%
1977: 20% 1982: 27% 1987: 30% 1992: 18%
1978: 22% 1983: 28% 1988: 26% 1993: 17% (Huh, I never realized that I was a minority)
1979: 25% 1984: 29% 1989: 23% 1994: 16%

In short, there is no inevitable relationship between the use of marijuana and other drugs. This fact is supported by data from other countries. In the Netherlands, for example, although marijuana prevalence among young people increased during the past decade, cocaine use decreased - and remains considerably lower than in the United States. Whereas approximately 16% of youthful marijuana users in the U.S. have tried cocaine, the comparable figure for Dutch youth is 1.8 percent. 85 Indeed, the Dutch policy of allowing marijuana to be purchased openly in government-regulated "coffee shops" was designed specifically to separate young marijuana users from illegal markets where heroin and cocaine are sold.
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...s_myth13.shtml

[Fabolous]

Weed is such a gateway drug but it also depends on the personality

i truethfully disagree with the whole gate way thing...... just like the post befor me explans that it's a myth,

you been told this by countless people i am sure (I know i have) but yet nehtier me or "ALL" the friends i have around the world have ever tryed or ever thought of doing any hard drug then Marijuana.

the people that start crack or LSD or what ever.... uselly becase of there life stiyle(there like the emo kids with out the thing " you don't understand part") weed i fell has no effect on if they start up somthing...
Just a nother choice that has be be decied by the person, weed can't talk physically so it can't really make a person get on other drugs :thumbsup: