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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
It's a "gateway" drug. Nonsense - MANY people smoke pot and nothng else.
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The reason people use that gateway drug argument, as far as I've been able to take a guess at anyway, is that pretty much everyone who does other, possibly more harmful drugs, started with pot/weed (was the case for me, and literally all those of my friends who did/do drugs - none of us stopped at only smoking).
So basically another instance where all buses are red, but not all red things are buses. Hence the correct statement that it's a gateway drug, insofar as the majority of users start with that rather than take heroin/meth/smack/charlie as a 1st drug, and most likely wouldn't have taken those others if they hadn't started with pot/weed. People get confused though imo, misinterpreting "it's a gateway drug" as "if you smoke you WILL end up doping other drugs", so because of the 2 different interpretations depending on your perception of it, neither 'side' can understand where the hell the others' viewpoint is coming from.
Just my theory on that particular facet of the whole thing
