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This is literally something that is taught in highschool, not some brave, contrarian belief.
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-some guy, not even within the first 10 people to say it
The gateway is having to deal with shitty people that used to be in those crowds.
Its becoming less of an issue as more people use it responsibly like social drinkers and you dont have to deal with a complete waste of space to society to get it or be around others who partake.
Reefer madness is bullshit, but its also not 100% harmless either. Chronic use of THC still almost certainly causes GABA disregulation for instance.
You have a stupid majority who act like weed is just as bad as heroine and meth and THE gateway drug, but the potheads who are just horrible people spouting about how its completely harmless aren't helping the cause either.
Also people with mental illness in their family history should probably not use it. But that is true for all drugs, including alcohol.
Has anyone called marijuana “a gateway drug” since 1997 or so?
Boomers and uptight genX.
You mean the generations that made pot use common in college?
No one is calling cannabis a gateway drug aside from the Republicans. Who all do cocaine.
Whoa dude. Republicans do all the drugs known to man, they just judge everyone else especially minorities for it, in a delicious and idiotic hypocrisy.
Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan both regularly smoked marijuana.
I'm not denying that shit loads of Republicans do cocaine (and meth) but I guess what I'm saying is that they also do all those other drugs that they hate on left wing people and minorities for doing.
So many boomer Republicans are so doped up on legal opioids because they're rich connected and have good doctors, it's not even funny. All while freaking out about anything that becomes available on the street, accessible to people without insurance.
Part of me feels like they wanted heroin and oxycodone replaced with the far more lethal fentanyl for the purpose of punishing the "wicked junkies" but that's somewhat of a conspiracy theory.
Part of me feels like they wanted heroin and oxycodone replaced with the far more lethal fentanyl for the purpose of punishing the "wicked junkies" but that's somewhat of a conspiracy theory.
I mean, there's a reason crack cocaine was so prolific and associated with negative outcomes in black communities... It's reasonable that a similar strategy might be used again in that same manner.
History often rhymes
You forgot caffeine in the meme
Literally classified as a unscheduled drug but people give it a pass cuz ur more "productive". More people have died from caffeine overdose then weed overdose.
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Refined sugar.
I don't think those are "gateways" though. I think the real gateway is when you try something that you're taught is vilified and told it will make you stupid and ruin your life, but then all it really does is chill you out. The gateway is realizing you've been lied to and you wonder what else was a lie so you try other things. Alcohol if anything has the opposite problem.
100%. There's also the fact that when weed is illegal, the only way to get it is through someone who likely sells other illegal substances so it's not hard to start messing around with other things after smoking for a bit.
Weed is only a gateway drug when its illegal
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Calling alcohol and nicotine the first substances that most people abuse when caffeine exists is the biggest win in propaganda history.
No one has ever said “man I love coffee, I should try ecstasy next!” Lol
nobody has said it because the same person never sold both
if you had to go to the ecstasy guy to buy your coffee too, then you'd be much more likely to try ecstasy as well
What? I’m confused at what point you’re trying to make lol
imagine a scenario, coffee is illegal. you can't buy it in a normal shop, but the same guy that sells every other illegal substance has it. and you have to go to that guy to buy some coffee
even though coffee is not similar in its effect to any harder drug by going out to buy it you're gaining the skill of obtaining illegal substances, and also put yourself in a place where you can get a variety of them
as you're buying your coffee your drug dealer tells you "try this, it'll make you feel really good" and you know what? society's already lied to you about coffee being bad, maybe they're lying about the ecstasy thing too, you already trust this guy, he's been selling you good coffee, so might as well try something new and exciting too eh?
and to be even more blunt, what i'm trying to say is that it's not the substance itself that makes a drug be a "gateway" it's the way you obtain it
if weed was perfectly legal and sold freely then it would not longer be a gateway drug, because as you try it you don't gain the experience and skill of obtaining illegal substances, nor do you get placed in a position where you can grab something extra with your purchase
Damn dude that’s a lot of text but I can’t take anyone seriously who thinks coffee can in any way shape or form lead to drug use lmao idc how well thought out your thesis is, it’s an insane hypothesis.
Caffeine has plenty of health benefits also. Forcing the working class to rely on it to survive is bad, but whatever you’re saying is ridiculous.
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The classification of cannabis changed to incarnate more black people. It's a historical fact and it's sad that many people don't know that.
Just gonna drop this quote form a Nixon aide here:
"You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did"
The war on drugs was a war on blacks and anti-Vietnam activists.
incarnate
Either you mean incarcerate, or else it is one hell of a gateway
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It goes along with how they categorize cannabis as "drug" while alcohol for some reason gets it's own special category.
DARE programs referring to "drugs, alcohol, and tobacco," and middle school me thinking "I'm pretty sure those are all drugs..."
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It is a gateway drug, not the. But it is the one that forwards most people to harder drugs.
Since weed is still illegal in many/most places, getting your hands on some could also introduce you to criminal elements that can provide a shorter route to harder drugs.
I write that as I recall joining a buddy as he went to some guys apartment to buy weed, and in the living room we were met with the dealer casually shooting heroin, asking if we'd like some. I can't recall ever having a stronger "holly shit I need to get out of here"-feeling.
I suddenly felt way too close to a road I did not want to go down.
nictoine would be a gateway drug too if you had to meet with a shady dude in an alleyway or get bitcoin to buy it
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