Why is marijuana a "Gateway Drug"?

LIBERTYCHICKEN said:

MJ is a gateway drug becouse it is illegal and introduces well meaning people to the illegal black market

Otherwise it's no more of a gateway drug than sugar

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Yeah, like I said categorizing it with other illegal substances.

The whole "gateway drug" concept isn't one supported by most in the psychological and psychiatric communities. The few studies that lean toward the idea of a gateway drug are based on corollary data, which any psychology major or any social science major, knows can't be used to determine causality. Meaning, even if it is in fact true that studies show teens and young adults who use marijuana have higher instances of hard drug use later in life, you can't say the marijuana necessarily caused the individual to seek harder drugs. More than likely it would be the case that those teenagers, for whatever reason, have a propensity toward drug use. Years ago, I've read most of their studies a few years back when I was a student and I wasn't convinced then, nor am I convinced now. I can go on and on about this subect. There is enough information out there to teach a semester long course on it, but the governments in the English speaking countries for the most part still push this nonsense agenda.

Rob Roy said:

Marijuana is a gateway drug, because when you smoke it, you forget to close the gateway and then the damn critters get out. Also because the government says it's a gateway and they would never lie about these things.

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"the marijuana worked, lets give him LSD next" - the guys in funny suites

cant really say it's a gateway drug if you like it so much you don't wanna experiment with anything else

True statement, falling into the psychological repetition of smoking weed. Like I see a lot of my friends because of weed, if I stopped smoking then I wouldn't see everyone because they would all still be getting high doing mad shit, and I'd be hating how bored I would be getting without weed, and only weed. I do not desire any other illegal substance.

This gateway logic is such bullshit. It falls apart when you extend it... 100% of herion junkies used water before trying heroin, so water must be a gateway drug, fucking idiots.

I am 30 years old, I started smoking cannabis at 15. In high school I also tried coke, all kinda of pharmaceuticals, extacy(when there was real MDMA still on the market, shit kids get now, "molly", only 10% of it even contains any MDMA btw)

It was cannabis I preferred to anything else, so if it had any effect on me doing other drugs, it helped keep me away from them. I've used it daily for 15 years, even worked my ass off to get a very difficult degree, so I could obtain my dream job and move to Co or Ca and join the cannabis and MMJ community. My life has never been better, I smoke 10 different strains a day, dabs all night, all while writing code and developing video games to the tune of slightly over 6 figures a year.

Take your ingornace elsewhere please, and do some real research before spouting, "this is why I think it's a gateway drug". Meanwhile there are actual studies that prove it isn't.

AlGore said:

It was cannabis I preferred to anything else, so if it had any effect on me doing other drugs, it helped keep me away from them. I've used it daily for 15 years, even worked my ass off to get a very difficult degree, so I could obtain my dream job and move to Co or Ca and join the cannabis and MMJ community. My life has never been better, I smoke 10 different strains a day, dabs all night, all while writing code and developing video games to the tune of slightly over 6 figures a year.

Take your ingornace elsewhere please, and do some real research before spouting, "this is why I think it's a gateway drug". Meanwhile there are actual studies that prove it isn't.

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LOL! i'd like to see these video games you speak of...

Like others have said its a gateway because it introduces you to a world where you can get other things..

But I think it also puts it in your head that "Hey, DARE, the police, the government are lying to me about pot.. So i might as well try these other things too..

you can engineer nearly anything if you want
the overlords want addiction: it is consumerism at it's worst/finest
ganj is a plant of peace and contentedness
it is, therefore, a threat
it is a gateway drug: to an alternative

like, if you really like it, you want more!

100% because it is illegal and therefore associated with illegalities / people who are involved in illegal conduct. Legalized weed = no more gateway.

if you had to buy cigarettes from a guy that also was selling crack at the same house cigarettes would be the gate way drug

And to "think", some idiot was paid with taxpayers dollars to write all this BS up...gateway drug. Where in the f*uck do they get this sh*t from. These people should really be "thinking" up shit for the Outer limits, The Twilight zone, etc.
I noticed the land lord had opened the hatch to go up on the roof. He must have been smoking mj.
Just keep putting out the BS. If the facts were printed there wouldn't be any doubts about the people who put out the propoganda crap.
The governments make their own problems.
Here's a fact. You can get exactly one gram of properly cured mj in one Zigzag cigarette paper

I feel it may be a better exit drug than a gateway.

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Its a gate way drug to freedom. Corporate America will loose money, think of all the (legal) drugs that would become useless, the prisons wouldnt have half the people they have now and look at all the police dept. dea, most of those people would be out of jobs

BoogNBuds said:

My opinion of why marijuana is gateway drug,
I am 20 years old and I live in Australia and as a child I was raised to believe the common misconception that marijuana is a gateway drug.

Some people may already be aware of these opinions or facts or have there own theories please post, this is a very basic description as It just covers the basics of my underlying theories


[FONT=arial, sans-serif]It has all been carefully staged propaganda since it was made Illegal in the 30's, the 70's declared it a schedule one drug, which made it the safest schedule one drug for the population to try, thus brainwashing people to think it is a gateway drug, simply by categorizing it in the same category as Heroin, Methamphetamine.. etc but just enough stigma around marijuana to make the only people to try it would be people who are having problems at home or in life, so they turn to drugs which everyone knows is a great way to escape reality, The DEA and american government accidentally or purposely (you can never know what they are actually up to) made it a gateway drug because after they try marijuana ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUGS APPARENTLY then sure whats the harm in trying cocaine or heroin? Just like I am sure if alcohol was still illegal it would be the biggest "Gateway Drug" of all time, I don't even consider taking cocaine or MDMA.(which is usually not MDMA and can even be known to have rat poison in the pills which it comes in), or the cocaine has been broken down with a synthetic drug or some other substance just as harmful) I don't even looking at these until I have had a drink of alcohol, one of the most mind altering addictive drugs of all time- that was a brief opinionated description of how marijuana got the stigma of being a gateway drug in the 70's.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial, sans-serif]I plan on making a video showing the positive effects of marijuana the positive effects of alcohol and the negatives for both[/FONT]

[FONT=arial, sans-serif]will be all real no fake shit and no biased opinions, will be fact (I plan on doing activities at all different levels of intoxication, then going to a club with a camera and filming as much as I can,
then the next week the exact same thing this time with all different levels of how high I am, I predict the camera work while high will be at least 167 times better, thank you. [/FONT]

I always like to leave my activist arguments with a statement along these lines,

Think about how many people have jobs because of marijuana being illegal
BIllions and Billions of dollars.

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its your friends who r the gateway, and the trend and choice of drug at the time,,

what's extasy rave tablets a gateway to??

Marijuana is a gateway drug because it usually opens ones eyes to realize that the gate swings both ways and that the government are a bunch of nazis for ever keeping it from you.

mnixon said:

like, if you really like it, you want more!

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A slogan aimed at the unthinking to justify locking up hippies so the pols. can throw a load of money to the justice system, and claim to be tough on crime so the same unthinking will reward them with their vote.

mainliner said:

its your friends who r the gateway, and the trend and choice of drug at the time,,

what's extasy rave tablets a gateway to??

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