Pot is a gateway drug because people lie to kids and tell them pot is just as bad as all the other drugs.
When they try pot and find out that they were lied to, they assume the same is true for all the other drugs and that’s where they get into trouble.
No my friend, you are the one that doesn't know what you are talking about. I used to know a pimp that would start out by getting girls hooked on weed, and he would then put some crack into it. In a week they were hooked on crack.
He would then send them out to the street to make him money.
I know numerous other examples of people who started out on pot, and eventually got bored with it so they turned to coke, crack, meth and heroin.
It is indeed a gateway. It gets them into the habit of using drugs, and they eventually develop a tolerance to it, at which point they want something stronger.
That sounds like a risky scheme at best, quite likely to get police raiding him at midnight when one of these lasses spilled the beans.
Your story kind of proves my point... get them to try marijuana so they can see that drugs are harmless and then get them hooked on crack.
Doesn’t change the fact that marijuana is harmless and that it should be treated differently than other drugs so that people can learn the truth rather than scare tactics.