Just think about it... if Herb did'nt exist (painful, I know) there would be something else to take its place that the media would label as a 'gateway drug'. It's bollocks. Herb is only a gateway drug if you are interested in other drugs and want to try them. With or without Herb, people would still try other drugs.
Sure, I'm interested in other drugs and have even told my parents that, but I would never try any others apart from magic mushrooms (done already), and I only took mushrooms after researching them thorougly and was in the right mindset. I would never take any other drugs apart from salvia, because I only want to try drugs that the shamans used long ago to look at my life from a different perspective, and attemp to live a more harmonious life.

I sound like a freakin hippy.