USA Today: Marijuana may not be lesser evil

[ukmonkey]

Alcohol, then shrooms and finally weed, I stopped there.

snap apart from I also tried pills simly because I was in the club and met some chicks that were hot and offered me some, and ended up having the time of my life... wudn't do it regularly though, t does fuck with your head.

[burnable]

In chronological order:

1 cigarettes
2 alcohol
3 weed
4 shrooms (which I thought were awesome at first, but then the more I did the less I liked them)
5 cocaine (never liked it, now I think of it and shudder, it's so gross)
6 oxycontin (indifferent at first, then I grew to like it. couldn't do a lot of it because it made me tired)
7 ecstasy (really really really liked it, but did too much one weekend and lost interest)

I think that's everything. I hope I don't get this thread closed with all this illicit info, but I do have a point. Weed is the only drug I still use (and I drink 1-2 times a week). With Every other drug I always hit a wall, and found reasons to not do them. It's cuz they're bad for u I never got busted legally for possession or anything, and stopped of my own free will, not because they weren't available. My point is, those who end up doing hard drugs and that can't get off them probably have self-destructive behaviorial issues and their disposition toward those drugs are not associated with cannabis itself. For this reason I think resources that are currently used to fight drug use and possession should be used for treatment of addicts, otherwise you're going to increase the overall number of criminals in the world by sending people to jail who don't belong there.

[anangrymailman]

I hate that gateway drug bullshit. Just because most people try weed first, doesn't mean its a gateway drug. Someone who says yes to meth or heroin probably isn't going to say no to weed...

[anangrymailman]

ever anti weed article is the exact same thing with a different name.


its just bullshit, weed is ver minorly addictive, i like to say its just as addictive as caffiene(sp) is to some people.

i also think that if you cant stop smoking weed and you want to you have a very weak will power.

Actually caffeine is said to be very addictive. Weed doesn't even compare.

[PatrickHenry]

Why not legalize it and find out? It's about personal freedom, I don't need the government protecting me from myself! For every person that says they're addicted there are hundreds of others that say they aren't.

[spankey]

ive used marijuana, then harder drugs, but i have never felt addicted to anything. hmmm.

in a way it is a gateway drug. i have said this before. it is totally up to the user though. what i mean is find me one person on the planet who has done harder drugs but hasnt smoked before. then again find me one person who has used harder drugs who hasnt drank before. then again you can find me millinos who have smoked or drank and just stopped there.

i really dont like how the articel just sidesteps alcohol. besides alcohol...
it is the biggest gateway drug there is

it is a gateway drug only because it is illeagle and most people have to go to other then upright people who introduce pot smokers to the other drugs. if it was leagle you would not have your local pot dealer trying to get you to use other higher profit drugs to boost there income. im not saying that ever dealer pushes other drugs but allot do.

[MotleyCrueBoy24]

Bullshit... more Bullshit...and then some..