Gateway Drug?

[Smokin EnDo]

I completly agree that marijuana is a gateway drug. Once you smoke it you realize that drugs aren't "bad". Post your opinions. And non-biased ones i know you can be very biased twords the good effects of marijuana and just completly push away the bad ones but we all smoke it we know the secrets you dont have to lie.

Smokin EnDo Reviewed by Smokin EnDo on 06-13-2006. Gateway Drug? I completly agree that marijuana is a gateway drug. Once you smoke it you realize that drugs aren't "bad". Post your opinions. And non-biased ones i know you can be very biased twords the good effects of marijuana and just completly push away the bad ones but we all smoke it we know the secrets you dont have to lie. Rating: 5

[drboots13]

Im not sure what you just said but i dont believe marijuana is a gateway drug. I look at cocaine the same way i always did and i choose not to do it. Its all personal choice.

[OrangeKush]

I completly agree that marijuana is a gateway drug. Once you smoke it you realize that drugs aren't "bad". Post your opinions. And non-biased ones i know you can be very biased twords the good effects of marijuana and just completly push away the bad ones but we all smoke it we know the secrets you dont have to lie.

Marijuana was the first "drug" I ever tried. Since then I have tried almost anyything I can get my hands on. I do feel that I would probably never have done any of the others had I not done marijuana in the first place. I DONT, however, beleive that anyone who smokes will eventually move on to "harder" drugs.

I agree with you on the part about realizing that that these things arent really bad as long as youre smart about them. Good thread, im interested to see what some of the other people have to say. :thumbsup:

[bedake]

If I went to a girl and said to her "I give gateway hugs" Think I'd get more girls?

I dont think so...

[Cloud997]

Not me, yes, pot was the first drug I have used, I also have used many others, but I still would have tried every one of them with or without first smoking pot. As it turns out, pot is the only drug I enjoy, with the exception of mushrooms and LSD. That's just me though.
:stoned:

[Brother Schenker]

Tobacco was my first drug. And then booze. And then pills. And then pot. And then acid. And then shrooms. And then speed. And then coke.

Was offered PCP but was not attracted to it. Turned it down.
Same deal with heroin---but I plan to try it when I'm elderly.

I agree with the poster who said they tried pot and saw that it was good and decided to try some others.

So tobacco was the gateway drug for me.
And all those tv shows & people who acted like drugs were evil actually made me curious and made the drugs attractive: I had to see what all the fuss was about.:rasta:

I should add: before I started toking no one ever offered me pot; no peer pressure. My buddy and I had to seek it out.

[t3chyo]

"Gateway Drug?", more like a "To Getaway Drug!

[shoi]

i think alot of it has to do the way ppl are taught abt drugs... all u ever hear are drugs are bad and so on and so forth... they nvr say "well pot isnt as bad as meth" or somthing like that... so wen u do pot u relize that its not as bad as everyone said it was so u automatically assume that meth and heroin are the same way... just because they dont teach you that some drugs are alot worse than others....

[LIP]

I dont think cannabis is a gateway drug at all.

The idea of it being a gateway drug is "People will tire of the high and seek a drug that gives them a higher feeling"

Well, its bullshit. The only reason people go onto harder drugs after cannabis is because they are buying from a dealer, and the chance and opertunity to try other drugs is there. It's all about temptation.

If cannabis was legal and we could by it at a shop there wouldnt be othe drugs there, and that means no temptation to try anything else.

[willystylle]

For marijuana to be a 'gateway' to other drugs, it needs to be addictive maybe? The common misconception is that marijuana leads to harder drugs, but this is untrue and the statement comes from the mis-informed fact that most marijuana users also use or have used other, possibly harder drugs. This doesn't necessarily mean that marijuana promotes curiosity in other drugs, but also that people who smoke marijuana regularly often become hardcore druggies.

You have only the governments of the world and their propoganda against the marijuana industry to thank. They have blown figures out of proportion and mis-informed the public for years, until people started believing all these little white lies.

CONCLUSION: Marijuana is NOT physically addictive and therefore cannot be seen as a gateway to harder drugs, an example being that many marijuana users do not even smoke cigarettes, let alone snort cocaine. Marijuana can be pyschologically addictive, YES, but so can sex. The onus is therefore on the cannabis users to refrain from using hardcore drugs.

Dr. willystylle, P.H.W.E.E.D