[presidio9]

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

Exceptions do not make the rule. Pot is not a good thing.

[Quick1]

Exceptions do not make the rule.

Does that apply to the addicts you know then, as well?

[Yeti]

Exceptions do not make the rule.

Well, if you take the number of people who do smoke and have smoked pot, and compare that number to the number of people who are addicted to hard drugs, it would seem that the pot-smokers who become hard-drug addicts are the exception, not the rule.

[PaxMacian]

GOD MADE HERB
GOD SAW THAT HERB WAS GOOD
GOD GAVE HERB TO MAN

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

[Sir Gawain]

Exceptions do not make the rule. Pot is not a good thing.

There is no proof for the gateway theory. Causation does not equal correlation.