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Debate:Are alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine gateway drugs? (view source)
Revision as of 20:43, August 17, 2008
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== That's difficult ==
== That's difficult ==
I would say that Marijuana is, but only because it is illegal, and therefore must be purchased from a guy who'd also like to hook you on anything he can, and isn't real scrupulous about how that gets done. Tobacco is, maybe. I think people are unlikely to try smoked drugs without first smoking cigarettes, but that may be because those two things are attractive to the same people, and cigarettes are a bit easier to come by. Alcohol is not.
I would say that Marijuana is, but only because it is illegal, and therefore must be purchased from a guy who'd also like to hook you on anything he can, and isn't real scrupulous about how that gets done. Tobacco is, maybe. I think people are unlikely to try smoked drugs without first smoking cigarettes, but that may be because those two things are attractive to the same people, and cigarettes are a bit easier to come by. Alcohol is not.
== Absolutely not ==
Marijuana is not a gateway drug in any sense of the word. If you smoke/have been smoking marijuana for a while, you will not eventually start heroine, cocaine, meth, etc. The whole myth of it being a gateway drug is just that: A myth, mostly created by the government during the "Just say no" period of the Drug War. In addition, marijuana is not lethal (Unless you smoke a couple THOUSAND.), and it does not kill braincells. These are, once again, just myths/lies/fibs/etc created by the government. Simple, really. --[[User:GunnerRecall|GunnerRecall]] 16:43, 17 August 2008 (EDT)