[presidio9]

Sure, and more and more people are pro-war on drugs too. Contrary to your naive brush-offs, I have a lot of first hand drug addicts. All of them started with pot. Many can not stand alcohol.

[Quick1]

I bet all of them breathed oxygen and drank water before trying harder drugs, too.

I'll repeat my example from above: I know plenty of pot smokers who have never tried or needed to try anything harder.

Is pot the reason for their switching to harder drugs, or is it just because they had addictive personalities and were screwed up in the first place? My guess is the latter.

I'll repeat my example from above: I know plenty of pot smokers who have never tried or needed to try anything harder.

[Last Visible Dog]

Sure, and more and more people are pro-war on drugs too. Contrary to your naive brush-offs, I have a lot of first hand drug addicts. All of them started with pot. Many can not stand alcohol.

Just because someone that is willing to use hard drugs also used pot does not prove a causal relationship.

Let’s examine other correlations

All users of hard drugs have a beating heart. Unlike pot use – the correlation between people with beating hearts and hard drug use is a perfect 100% therefore having a beating hearts leads to hard drug use. (BTW: there is 0% hard drug use among people that do not have beating hearts).

Starting to see the folly of unwarranted correlations?

[MrLeRoy]

I have a lot of first hand drug addicts. All of them started with pot. Many can not stand alcohol.

"A recent study by Columbia University's Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, states that the earlier children use the gateway drugs tobacco or alcohol[...], the more likely they are to move on to other drugs. Youth who drank alcohol were 50 times more likely to use cocaine, and those who smoked tobacco cigarettes were 19 times as likely to use cocaine." - Drug Watch International Position Statement