Does marijuana lead to hardcore drugs?

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[Stew Padasso]

fyi

[Cedric]

Does marijuana lead to hardcore drugs?

Duh!

[luckodeirish]

I must be an idiot. I always thought what led to drug use was poor parenting or poor parental supervision, lack of self discipline, lack of motivation and such. Hmm.

[BrooklynGOP]

Does owning a gun lead to murder?

[longtermmemmory]

In court its almost a universal truth. All hardcore defendants used pot at least once before moving up. (admitted at least once)

How would you effectivly test for DUI/DWI for pot? Roadsides are not accurate enough alone.

[Wolfie]

Coincidence and causality are two different things. As somebody pointed out, almost everybody's first experience with an intoxicant is beer. That doesn't mean beer leads to drug use.

[Mr. Bird]

Does marijuana lead to hardcore drugs?

Only for the lucky ones! In all seriousness, I think it's a matter of correlation more than causation. You can probably assert that over 90% of hard drug users have used marijuana, but the percentage of marijuana users who move to hard drugs is nowhere near that high.

The bottom line is that marijuana is much more accessible, so someone with an inclination to heroin may start with marijuana for reasons of availability and cost, while the casual pothead starts and ends with marijuana because that's what they like.

I would think that most Ferrari drivers started out with something slower and less expensive. Does that mean that the Geo Metro is a gateway car to Ferrari?

[bassmaner]

"It's only because marijuana and heroin are sold in the same distribution channels — illegally trafficked — that they are related. And it's about risk-taking behavior."

Reduce the risk ...

RE-LEGALIZE! NOW!

[John Beresford Tipton]

LOL.
The author's name is WILL SNITCH!

[Hugin]

I knew a lot of hard core druggies in my younger days. Almost all were cigerette smokers. I guess tobacco is the real gateway drug.

[longtermmemmory]

absolutly true. There may be a correlation with the hard drug users and pot but not causation. It does not change the correlation to illegal use.

[Wolfie]

That's all well and good. Except that the government has propagandized for the last 60 years that there is some inherent chemical aspect of marijuana that causes hard drug use, and justifies arresting people (in part) on that basis.

[thoughtomator]

I think that if we take a good hard look at the evidence... it is indisputable that drug prohibition leads to drug use.

[vpintheak]

You know what they say, "Free your mind, and your a$$ will follow."

[cinFLA]

Does that mean that the Geo Metro is a gateway car to Ferrari?

Yes.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[Labyrinthos]

Does marijuana lead to hardcore drugs?

According to many Freepers, marijuana is a hard drug.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Does owning a gun lead to murder?

Nope, but since almost all murderers own a gun, that logic has been accepted as gospel.

[longtermmemmory]

there is, the problem you have is people do not all use drugs for the same reason.

Those who are self medicating to escape problems of the real world are most assuridly going to move up the latter of drug use. There are no more adaptive safe behaviors. Boys are prohibited from being rowdy. Alcohol is redily available and quite abused but the after effects can be dissipated over time. (work release prisoners drink in the morning and are clean by the time they return in the evening.) The long term effects of cocain in all its forms (this includes ritalin) are harder to disipate. LSD and extasy are well known for having flashbacks. Prolonged pot use has been linked to MS like symptoms in the brain.

How is amsterdam doing with their legal pot experiment? not so good.