weed... a gateway drug?

[Grumpy]

marijuana is what you make of it. however i can see how some people could say it's a gateway drug, but what are cigarrettes themselves?! a gateway drug. i took a puff off a cig before a puff of some dope. lots of times the gateway itself are your peers. the gateway itself is in your mind. you see people getting fucked up having a good time, makes u want to try it. the marijuana didn't make you try new things. maybe the war on drugs should focus their complaints on the human mind rather than one of gods fruits.

[Grassmann1]

in a way its a gateway drug...but i think its ur own damn choice to go for those other drugs

[Grim Bongmaster]

"everyone knows it leads to other things"

"well, yeah...mainly junk food" hahahaha

...I really want to go to that DEA museum..have you guys heard of this? They have a museum with pictures of car wrecks and shit...and it tells you what they were taking. This accident killed 4 people and the driver was stoned. When in fact he probably got stoned two weeks earlier..and even then...they probably don't have any drunk driving wrecks in there. That would be fun though..go in..laugh at all their shit. What a fuckin waste of tax money.

[BostonBUDdy]

Nobody is gonna start out on heroin
Weed maybe the first drug they try becuase it fukin weed, but weed doesnt make you want to take harder drugs
If alcohol was called a drug it would be considered the gateway drug
They do harder drugs becuase they want to weed has nothing to do with it

[Stonedgobln420]

Man, weed has definitely been a gateway drug for me....


It lead me to hot pockets and funyuns

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by BostonBUDdy

Nobody is gonna start out on heroin
Weed maybe the first drug they try becuase it fukin weed, but weed doesnt make you want to take harder drugs
If alcohol was called a drug it would be considered the gateway drug
They do harder drugs becuase they want to weed has nothing to do with it

you're right, marijuana is usually where it all begins. simply because IT'S EVERYWHERE! it's an abundant drug, more chances arise for the first time users.

alcohol is considered a drug, as well as cigarrettes, as well as caffeine!
at one time, in the U.S. alcohol was exactly that. an illegal drug! of course the people woudlnt stand for a dictatorship so guess what? they kept on making and selling booze!
same goes with marijuana. it's continued to be a favorable recreational dilemma. it's just a matter of time before it becomes a legal, taxed product!
marketed for your fatass dirty dollar.

[BostonBUDdy]

Once the oldest voting block is baby boomers I predict it will be legalized.

[DeadChimp]

If weed were around all the time. People might not drift to the meth/coke realms as much. Around here powders are bigger than green. And as a pothead, that sucks.

Moving soon though, thank goodness.

[Katybyrd]

yo, weed can't even be compared to harder drugs. it's like sayin that playing poker is the gateway to gambling addiction...point being it's everywhere and pretty harmless in my opinion. so people do crack, but a TON more people smoke weed. i can't even talk about things like coke around most of my stoner friends because they're def not cool about it.

for sure, all the drugs i've done beyond weed started when i was drunk and stupid. getting stoned usually doesn't make me all hyper and want to do shit. in fact, when i smoke i usually look back on drugs i've done and wonder what the fuck i was thinking at the time.

it's all about time and place. make the right choices in friends and set your own limits.

[BostonBUDdy]

DARE and all those anti-drug groups only make it worse
In trying to stop use of hard drugs they group pot in with it
And when kids try pot (which like 90% do) and find out it isn't bad they figure the same must be true of hard street drugs.
In villafying pot they increase the use of hard drugs and turn it into a gateway drug

[WestCoastStoner]

it can be a gateway drug.......matters how your personality is.........

[smokinwytetrash]

i have been smokin for a long time and have never have felt the urge to smoke a fat sack of rocks, but like ppl have said depending on the person mj can be a gateway. a perfect example of this would be a close friend of mine who originally only smoked mj but then he got bored of the high and is now a full fledged pill popper cokehead and whatever else he can get his hands on. now im not sayin mj is bad but an addictive personality can easily wind up using other drugs, then again there are ppl who use hard drugs who have never smoked pot in there life so really it all just happens the way its gonna happen.

[AllBlind420]

I my self have been smoking for a long time and I hate the thought of people doing crack, haroine, cocane, and even nasty ass cigs. Im sick of people saying weed is a gate way drug. Some people think that people are gonna get to use to the affect of weed and move on to a higher drug. Well fuck that, to me its strictly buds.

[BadCompany]

Well McDonalds serve gateway burgers... the gateway to being obese.

How about TELEVISION?... the gateway to lazy couch potatoes and the destruction of your mind's creative abilities...

Yet, you don't go to jail for those things....

[Mutant Monkey]

I think people are missing the point here, people who don't grow and have to buy from "dealers" are often offered stronger drugs because a lot of dealers sell more than one product.
The benefit of legalising cannabis cultivation and consumption is that it would take it out of the criminals hands, I started growing so I wouldn't have to deal with low lifes who sell crack and heroin to school kids.
Before all the smackheads take offence you should know this "I hate coke and smackheads almost as much as I hate child molesters" and I don't care who knows it. In a way the need to consort with dealers exposes you to more drugs and more risks.