Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana. Trying to normalize it’s use is a fatal mistake.
“Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana. Trying to normalize it’s use is a fatal mistake.”
Gee, I wonder if beer could be a “gateway drug”? I am sure that many more people tried alcohol before they ever tried marijuana. Huh.....
Most likely they started with cigarettes and alcohol. One of the reasons marijuana uses move onto harder drugs is because the seller sells both and begins to push their users into harder drugs to get them addicted and spending more money. Legalizing MJ eliminates that from occurring, not to mention saves $25+b a year on law enforcement and frees up space for violent criminals.
And every alcoholic I ever met started with .... alcohol. I assume you’re a fan of prohibition?
We are Republicans. Conservatives. We value individual freedom, not government regulation and overreach. We value the right of free men to make their own decisions over their own lives. If “some” people abuse things... well thats their problem.
We also value the Constitution. Please show me where in the Constitution the Federal Government is given the authority to criminalize marijuana?
And no, I don’t smoke.
By that logic, breast feeding is the gateway substance that's to blame for everything.
I agree with you and both of us will be flamed for this.
Every hard drug addict I ever treated when I was in that profession started with sugar, caffeine & nicotine. Some later used cannabis on their way to hard drugs & some didn’t.
The “gateway” doesn’t appear for everyone.
Between ages 12 and 27, I used every drug in the book-weed, cocaine, heroin, LSD, meth, PCP, ecstasy,psilocybin, mescaline, pills, and alcohol. My experience with marijuana as a gateway drug is a result of exposure to other drugs through people I smoked weed with. Within two years of smoking marijuana, I used cocaine and LSD. This seems to be the way that marijuana is a gateway drug.
“Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana.”
Every one of them I ever met started with alcohol. Same as the one’s you met.
“Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana. Trying to normalize it’s use is a fatal mistake.”
I worked for a guy doing special effects designs for Wheel Of Fortune slot machine. Worth $$$ millions. Spent his time in the loft above the shop smokin dope. Destroyed the business, spent all his wife’s money. Screwed me on a deal in Portugal worth more $ millions.
I’ve seen the effects.
That include hardcore alcoholics, too? Who by far outnumber other drug addicts? Did most of them, too, start with marijuana?
Didn't think so!
Regards,
“Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana.”
How many drank beer or smoked cigarettes before smoking Marijuana and becoming a hard drug addict?
And when you say “started with Marijuana”, was that right out of the womb or did tens of thousands of other things happen for the first time before they smoked Marijuana, and if so, how do you know which “first” was the one that turned ‘em into hard drug addicts?
I bet you that before they smoked their first joint, they drank alcohol.
I don't believe one necessarily leads to the other. I think it is more likely that your proclivity to take drugs or drink excessively are based on your upbringing and the environment you put yourself in.