Gateway drug? I tend to disagree.

Cannabis is the most popular of all illegal substances, and the reason I think people try cannabis first, is it is considered softer than other drugs, and it is the most easy to find and purchase. You can walk up to 50% of the people in your area, and most of them will know where to find cannabis.

If anything, tobacco is the first thing people try, but it isn't considered a drug. Once something has been approved by a our government, it makes it no longer immoral.

For me, tobacco was the first drug I used, then alcohol, then cannabis. Using cannabis never gave me an open door to other substances. It was more curiosity than anything. Seeing it in the movies, on TV, hearing about, well yeah I'm wondering what the other stuff is about, but I wasn't stupid enough to get hooked on it. Plus I found harder drugs very boring compared to cannabis. Harder drugs just give you energy or make you pass out, so I find it pointless.