No dispute with that. However I do take issue with those who deny marijuana is a gateway drug.
“No dispute with that. However I do take issue with those who deny marijuana is a gateway drug.”
Calling marijuana, beer, cigarettes “gateway” doesn’t make much difference.
I tried them all, but got addicted to alcohol. When I got sober, I had an accident, surgery and was given Vicodine. A friend in AA advised me to be careful, because the pain meds were very fast and effective, in “hooking” you.
The Vicodine came from the doctor and the pharmacy. It is written that one of the biggest “addiction crises” is among older Americans, for prescribed pain meds.
My wife looks after her 86 year old mother, who wears a pain med patch. Recently she had an accident, got overdosed on the patch, and it nearly killed her.
My father introduced me to alcohol, so that by the time I reached adulthood, I’d know how to drink properly, like a man.
That is what his dad did, before him.
Some kids try alcohol, throw up, decide that is not worth it and don’t drink.
Another kid will try alcohol, throw up, and decide that is just the thing, and he is found later living a shitty life, dead at an early age, or in AA.
Pick your own poison, pick your own vendor. There are plenty for all.
No dispute with that. However I do take issue with those who deny marijuana is a gateway drug.
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I’d love to hear from the posters on this thread, from what product did y’all get your first buzz?
It was cigs for me, followed by booze, and only then MJ. Tried a few other things in late high school and college, but never took to them. Loved pot, though.
So, in your estimation, was pot my gateway (to nowhere, ultimately)?