[firebrand]

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug. If it weren't, nobody would bother taking it. It is a dangerous drug that has landed people in the hospital.

And of course it is a gateway. Just think about it, even on the purely psychological level. Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take, or even, as happened to me, put stronger drugs in a supposed reefer.

Buffyt, the fact that you wrote "Pot is pot" disqualifies you from participation in any future discussion of the subject. The greenest novice knows that there are widely varying strengths, and the reasons why.

The Internet will tell you anything you have itching ears to know, by the way. As conservatives, we should all know that.

[rastus macgill]

What stronger drugs were in your "reefer" ESTROGEN?

[ActionNewsBill]

Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take, or even, as happened to me, put stronger drugs in a supposed reefer.

Looks like a good argument for growing your own

[jayef]

Again, correlation NOT causation. I have asked this question over and over. Someone please tell me the exact substance/agent/chemical in marijuana that induces craving for other "harder" drugs!

[vin-one]

Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take,

With that above statement you are disqualified from ever discussing pot as well,
your friends that smoke it are more likely to push other drugs,
Dude turn off that Refer Madness Movie it has warped your brain.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug. If it weren't, nobody would bother taking it. It is a dangerous drug that has landed people in the hospital.

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug, yes, but it's a drug that has no achievable overdose level. It is humanly impossible to smoke enough weed to OD. Unless you can provide statistics that show the number of patients who land in the hospital because of an adverse reaction to marijuana, your statement is interesting, but it's your opinion only.

And of course it is a gateway. Just think about it, even on the purely psychological level. Not to mention the fact that friends who smoke pot are more likely to have stronger drugs that they will, in social situations, pressure people to take, or even, as happened to me, put stronger drugs in a supposed reefer.

Marijuana is absolutely not a gateway drug, and this, plus the assumption that marijuana smoking makes black jazz musicians rape innocent white girls, is the most ridiculous thing ever posited by the pro-WoD side. There is nothing inherent in marijuana that makes one, after smoking marijuana, desire harder, stronger drugs. Science has debunked the gateway theory time and time again---check any WoD thread on FR for proof.

As for your marijuana-smoking friends who've "moved on" to harder drugs and your dealer pals who tried to push you on to them or sell you laced grass, I'd say it's high time you find a better class of people to hang out with. It sounds like you've surrounded yourself with some real grade-A arseholes, and that's coloring your opinion in this matter.