I was thinking about it and idk tell me what you guys think. Marijuana is said to be a gateway drug because when people finally do it and find out its safe, they want to try other drugs. If marijuana was made legal, once people tried it and found out it was safe, they wouldn't be tempted to try other illegal drugs because, well, it's not illegal. Suppose alcohol and cigarettes were made illegal. After awhile, they would start being referred to as "gateway drugs" as well because people would try them and be like "Oh shit. These are illegal and they're supposed to be bad? Well damn I wonder what other illegal drugs are safe like this..." Ultimately resulting in the experimentation of other illegal drugs. If it hasn't already, which more than likely it has, I think this theory should be used as an an argument to anyone who says "Marijuana shouldn't be made legal because it is a gateway drug." Anyone else agree?
There are no gateway drugs. If I 'progress' from drinking coffee to drinking beer, does this make the coffee a 'gateway drug?' Of course not! I'm not interested in cannabis or hallucinogens, but like opioids. I don't smoke either and avoid caffeine! Stimulants, hallucinogens, opioids, benzodizepine tranquillisers, antidepressants, antipsychotics, are all completely different classes of drugs and no-one 'progresses' from one class to another. I've been prescribed antidepressants but don't want to 'progress' to antipsychotics. The theory of gateway drugs is ridiculous!
The only reason marijuana is a gateway drug is because it's the most innocuous drug there is, and therefore it is the first drug most people do. But it's a joke to think that smoking weed encourages people to try other drugs. Btw, a lot of people drink before they smoke weed, so who's to say alcohol isn't the true gateway drug.
It isn't the first drug people do. Some people, like me, aren't much interested in cannabis. Yes I'd like to try it, maybe I'll like it, but I've always been more interested in opioids. Smoking weed can cause schizophrenia ... a drug like morphine won't. So cannabis is not 'the most innocuous drug there is.' If I was to eat a jam sandwich, then murder someone, using this gateway drug 'logic' the jam sandwich would be the cause of my crime.
'Gate Way Drugs' is total bullshit. It is the media/government/anti-pot people are taking a correlation and making it into a causality. You can correlate hard drug use with water, or cigs, vodka or the color blue. Whats sad is that this type of stuff happens everyday. Many studies are based off correlation and show no proof of causality. So when you read an articule about how flaxseed help prevent cancer you need to ask yourself if the science behind that statement was derived from a correlation or was acutally proven. It's a good point that weed doesn't cause other people to go try harder drugs. I think I read on ERowid.com that only 1% of people who smoke weed go on to use drugs like coke or heroin. I mean the arguments for legalized are kinda of useless at this point. The anti-pot sentiment has become a beast of its own among many of our parents and grandparents. so our best bet is to wait until we are older and then try to push for legalization.
well i will tell u my drug expoerience and my gateway young i tried pot once cigs a lil speed in school then nothing awhile till acid.. i tried a bunch of stupid shit..pills alcahol ..excess.. then had my gateway...realization that was screwing up..and stopped everything but tobaco and weed.. but used weed as a now anbd then..never bought only smoked when it was handed to me weekly mothly seasonaly or daily.. didnt matter...just gave just gave up jonsin game up meat around then too pot was a gateway to not needing or wanting anything negative in my life anymore including excessive pot..bein thankful for what is provided but never needin alot..almost always havin more then i need (since have that oil stash i hardly ever need to touch thats purely medicinal power..like more then 10 drops is way too much) weed and understanding weedss lesson (that smoking less makes u apreciate it all the more when its there...& smoking too much u lose apreciation for it it was also a gateway to after injuring my spine in a bad motorcycle acident getting off meds that were fucking upo my mind and making me halucinate and believe the shit was there (was on too high a dose) & also pot hgelped me not need pain meds & the spasms and everything pot was the gateway out of the drug and alcahol and excess even tobaco i regret all my drug and alcahol and toxins use except the psychodelics but even tho havent touched emn in many years think i took em lil too far.. but sweet mary jane dont regret 1 bit and am thankful for whenever she comes my way.. sweet nourishment for my soul shes been good to me when all else has hurt.. as a gateway shes led me to many an amazing experience if i hadnt opened that gate doubt my life woulda lead where it lead and im pretty thankful for where it is and is going its been the best damn gateway for me.. man if it was legal it woulkd be a gateway to a green revolution open the damn gate already people legalize it and maybe we do have a shot at getting rid of dangerouse crap like meth and alcahol tobaco & crap.. ya know whats wrong with growers right now? every1 wants the seedless best of the best and all but to get the ganja growin we need to fertalize the nation a few years till feilds are growin coast to coast plants a poppin here and there forrests of ganja growin wild i mean like in the area of 10 million or more seeds spread to go wild..so theres just so much growin its impossible to control or deny ..so every back yard every park every river shore coast to coast mountain to dessert to beach has plants ready for harvest ..
Opities are very dangerous and highly addictive. They are amazing, but are extremly addictive and consume peoples lives. Herion, and the new percerpition drug craze are good example of the way opites can be destrive. Weed doesn't cause schizophrenia, it's another one of those correlation without causality. Only a tiny percent of people who use weed get schizophrenia and that number is on par with what normal non-pot users will have schizophrenia. Not to metion that geneics play a much larger role then drugs do in mental disorders.
Opities are very dangerous and highly addictive. They are amazing, but are extremly addictive and consume peoples lives. Herion, and the new percerpition drug craze are good example of the way opites can be destrive. Weed doesn't cause schizophrenia, it's another one of those correlation without causality. Only a tiny percent of people who use weed get schizophrenia and that number is on par with what normal non-pot users will have schizophrenia. Not to metion that geneics play a much larger role then drugs do in mental disorders.
I'm not anti-weed and I do think it can cause people to develop schizophrenia, I've seen it happen. OK they could have got it anyway later and the weed could have brought it out of them earlier, but it does cause people to hear voices etc. I have chosen to avoid weed until now I'm 25 and my brain is fully developed, because I know I've had schizophrenic thought in the past and wouldn't want to risk it.
All shameless propaganda. Trace it back the the "reefer madness" movement. The University of Pittsburgh did a 12-year study on the "gateway" theory, and proved it's bunk. Here's a probably-unhelpful summary. The study's pretty dense, so it's hard to sum up (my bold): While the gateway theory posits that each type of drug is associated with certain specific risk factors that cause the use of subsequent drugs, such as cigarettes or alcohol leading to marijuana, this study’s findings indicate that environmental aspects have stronger influence on which type of substance is used. That is, if it’s easier for a teen to get his hands on marijuana than beer, then he’ll be more likely to smoke pot. This evidence supports what’s known as the common liability model, an emerging theory that states the likelihood that someone will transition to the use of illegal drugs is determined not by the preceding use of a particular drug but instead by the user’s individual tendencies and environmental circumstances.
yeah the gateway drug thing is bullshit i drank and tried speed before i smoked weed. then i smoked a few times, did coke and got addicted to speed (in a few dif forms) and then said fuck it to everything else and now i'm just a stoner and i only do a few other things sometimes on the weekends if it wasn't weed i'd probably be an alchy or somethig worse
weed doesn't cause schizophrenia. it has the possibility of bringing it out in people who are prone to it as a result of mental disorders in family history
Then it causes it. I do realise that most people won't develop schizophrenia from weed but some will. In some it will 'bring out' (cause) schizophrenia.
i really dunno bout that i mean ive smoked with scitsohrantics many many times and in all these years only seen 1 possible schitsophrantic reaction but hey if u think u shouldnt because u already have probs then you probly knoew whats best for u.. (not opiates tho theyre good for noone)
never heard that weed causes schizophrenia. I've only heard that people who already have a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia increase their chances of getting it full blown if they do too much LSD
pot is a gateway drug, it has been "proven" most users of hard drugs started out with pot, but not all pot users will go on to hard drugs. that pisses me off.
I think weed is a gateway drug. My reasoning comes from the fact that weed is illegale, so when you buy weed you, at some point, come in contact with dealers who are selling other drugs and they get you interested in those other drugs until, eventually, you become interested enough to experiment with them. It's not a gateway drug for the reasons the government would have you believe though. Another reason weed needs to become legalized, because if it was legal and sold in stores, you would never have to come in contact with people selling those other drugs.
theres a difference between the two terms i used. weed can't *cause* schizophrenia. it can *bring it out* in people who have a family history of it. say someone isn't diagnosed with schizophrenia and they don't have symptoms, but their mother and every maternal grandmother for the past decade was diagnosed. (also known as "family history") that person would be prone to schizophrenia. if they smoke alot of weed long-term, they have the possibility of the weed *bringing it out.* if someone who has no family history of schizophrenia and they are not diagnosed themselves, they have no shot of the weed *causing* it.
