Hmm..Is weed really a *gateway drug*?

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Definetly.  Weed is not that bad really.  But in most cases you are getting it from a dealer who is proabably dealing other drugs.  He can talk you into that "other ****"

Also once you start smoking weed you beging to wonder about the other drugs and you say to yourself..."well i have already tried weed and i love it, so why not try other drugs?".

And thus the spiral begins.

Personally, I think weed is just as bad as all other drugs. They do the same thing, and weed has been proven to make you impotent and destroys brain cells.

Just because its \'natural\' doesn\'t mean its good.

And yes, once your hooked on weed, you wanna try harder stuff, hence the reason why most addicts start off with pot.

ROFL..I love the BS you guys have been fed. A dealer will talk you into harder stuff???? Are you that weak willed?

With all of the current info out on the harder stuff, I dont see how one would be curious enough. Even though it happens, i dont know how.

Racer, sorry to burst yer bubble, but there is nothing in weed that is chemicaly addictive, so it would only be a mental addiction, which is just plain sad.

*EDIT* also, for every study that shows weed to kill brain cells, I will show you one that proves otherwise. Those studies are way to vague and discriminant to prove conclusive.

I\'ve been offered weed so many times by friends.... I always give the same blunt (no pun intended) answer: "What the hell for?"

weed IS bad for you, luckee

if it was healthy for you, we\'de all be doing it

i dont know if i would call it a gateway drug, but its usually the 1st drug people take.  the next step is shrooms (which is also thought to be harmless), or some other mild stimulant

LIFE is a "gateway drug.

No really.

Virtually all creatures have a desire to get high. To lose control and slip away for a while.

Ant\'s will capture and hold hostage beetles so they can feed off of the secretions which just happen to get the ants off.

Hippos on the plains of Africa will ram trees to make the fruit fall... But they won\'t eat the fruit until it rots (and ferments), then they eat it all up... to get the buzz!!:)

True, even us humans have a natural desire to get buzzed.

As for a gateway drug. The truth is whichever drug you do first, be it alcohol, pot, acid, whatever, will be YOUR personal gateway drug. The trick is knowing your limits and sticking to what you feel is proper.

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Originally posted by mm
weed IS bad for you, luckee

if it was healthy for you, we\'de all be doing it

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That has nothing to do with anything right now. Please stay on subject.

I must be in the minorty. I have smoked my fair share of weed in my day and never had the desire to step up to anything harder.

It\'s all to scary.

Ace

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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Personally, I think weed is just as bad as all other drugs. They do the same thing, and weed has been proven to make you impotent and destroys brain cells.

Just because its \'natural\' doesn\'t mean its good.

And yes, once your hooked on weed, you wanna try harder stuff, hence the reason why most addicts start off with pot.

"Hooked" on weed, huh....

I haven\'t heard that one since an ABC afterschool special in 1986...

better than being hooked on naked boys.  

There\'s no addiction, but after a while you get bored with it. Every time you do it, it gets less fun.  The trips are shorter or don\'t have the same effect...so you must find another drug to take you on that high...

I\'ve done it about 5 times and always asked, what\'s the big deal?  I think I may be immune to it though...

Don\'t smoke yourself stupid!!! There was a kid in my school, advanced calculus, A.P. English...in the top five at school, on his way to college...his senior year he fell into a crowd and smoked himself into oblivion.  He can\'t remember any of his friends names, can\'t hold a conversation for ****, and works for his dad...never went to college.

Originally posted by Ginko
There\'s no addiction, but after a while you get bored with it. Every time you do it, it gets less fun.  The trips are shorter or don\'t have the same effect...so you must find another drug to take you on that high...

I\'ve done it about 5 times and always asked, what\'s the big deal?  I think I may be immune to it though...

Don\'t smoke yourself stupid!!! There was a kid in my school, advanced calculus, A.P. English...in the top five at school, on his way to college...his senior year he fell into a crowd and smoked himself into oblivion.  He can\'t remember any of his friends names, can\'t hold a conversation for ****, and works for his dad...never went to college.

Please don\'t tell me smoking caused all of that. No way.. Smoke didnt make him fall to a below average human, he made himself fall that far.

Originally posted by luckee


Please don\'t tell me smoking caused all of that. No way.. Smoke didnt make him fall to a below average human, he made himself fall that far.

Much like alcohol, it kills brain cells.  Being that he got "hooked" on it, he did it every morning, during lunch, and after school.  He said it calmed his nerves...

he made himself fall that far

Yes, by smoking weed...

I don\'t smoke anything at all, but I can\'t say I\'m against weed... hell, if I could get it very easily I\'d prolly try/use it myself.

Let\'s put aside the things that teachers, pastors, and public service announcements tell us, and look at this from a realistic point of view.

First of all, weed is a very casual drug.  Most people know a friend of a friend, or their "dealer" is a buddy who keeps a few ounces laying around.  It\'s not a trenchcoat and sunglasses, lay out in the street and beg for money, sell your mama\'s tv kind of drug.

I think weed and alcohol are very similar, aside from how they\'re taken into the body.  One beer equals about one hit...semi-euphoria for several hours, then the sun rises.  We all know people who go back to the bar the next day, or don\'t go out for another month, or three.  Addictive personalities DO exist.  There are alcoholics everywhere, and there are people who abuse weed.  It\'s all about your self-control.  If you\'re one of those people who go into a casino and end up selling your plane ticket, you probably shouldn\'t be drinking, smoking cigs, or smoking weed either.

Some people CANNOT live without alcohol, and some people CANNOT live without weed.  Those people obviously have a problem, and are on they way to something worse.  The majority can live without either, but like to get a buzz now and then.  Speaking from personal experience, I\'ve never had the desire to try anything harder than liquor or weed.

There\'s no doubt we\'d all be in better health if no one put any foreign substances into their body.  A glass of wine a day, blah blah blah.  Exercise regularly, and eat right and you wouldn\'t need the wine.  But in reality, people do like to feel real good now and then, and will continue to do so without becoming a junkie.