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IHO Missy's argument with her DH: POLL!!
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Re: IHO Missy's argument with her DH: POLL!!
I lean toward yes on this.
I also feel like ppl who start smoking cigarettes are more likely to give MJ a whirl.
If you are going to go for hard drugs you're probably not going to start right off shooting heroin, you're likely going to try pot or shrooms or something much more tame at first.
BUT just because you do something tame like pot doesn't mean that you're going to want to up it to something bigger. If they want to do a hard drug they well, it has nothing to do with trying pot.
Most of the people I know smoke pot or have at some point in their lives. Yet I only know 2 people who have ever done hard drugs.
I think by trying pot you are already predisposed to trying more drugs.
But I don't think of it as a gateway drug. It really depends on the user's personality. Most of people that I know that have tried harder drugs only did them a few times, but then went back to pot.
Sure, but so are alcohol and cigarettes. One kind of risk taking behavior is more likely to proceed or follow another. I don't know anyone who tried heroin who didn't try pot first. However, I think the term "gateway drug" is ridiculous.
I don't think this is true. I smoked my first j before I smoked my first sig. Although I was one of few people I knew who smoked pot but not cigs.
I think people who are willing to try pot are probably willing to try other drugs, but I don't think pot makes people want to try drugs.
71 workouts completed in 2012
The first drug I ever did was ecstasy. I don't think I'd ever even been drunk. It was INTENSE. I didn't try pot till about a year and a half later.
So....clearly ecstasy is a gateway drug.
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isn't this the definition of "gateway drug?"
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Just kidding
Then that would make cigarettes their gateway drug.
No one substance is THE gateway drug.
If your first brush with substances was sipping on your dad's beer, then beer would be your gateway drug.
It's different for everyone who has used substances.
I am DYING!!!!!!! HAHAHA....
I agree with sonrisa that cigs and alcohol can be seen that way, too. and look, I'm not saying I haven't had my share of experimenting... but now that I think about my own kids growing up... the idea of losing my kids to hard drugs scares theSHIT out of me. So, the conversation happens with my H... and I say that I hope we can keep them out of the dope and H is all, 'well... i smoked pot all through high school and it didn't bother me"
and i'm liiiike.... statistically, that isn't the norm. and look... if we can keep our kids away from pot, mayyybe we can help them stay clean.
(that is the super super super short version)
Also... why is 'gateway' such a negative term for some? (sonrisa?) why ridiculous? I honestly believe it can soften the edge of harder drugs being so risky. "Well... i smoke and drink.. why not try pot?... well, i smoke pot... let's just try some acid next weekend?... etc...etc..."
I had to fight thatshit every step of the way when i was in college. and it was HARD. I wanted to drug out a LOT.
I am just so scared for our kids.
I think if someone is ok with doing drugs, they are probably going to try it first with whatever drug is easiest to get a hold of. Which, for 99% of people in the US, is pot.
For me, at 15, it was acid. That was the first drug I ever did. Because that's what my BFF had. Well, unless we're counting cigs. I didn't even drink at the time.
Pot was actually the last drug that I tried. The first time I got high was post college.