Do u believe cannabis is a "gateway drug" that leads users/abusers on to other, harder drugs? Please, give me ur opinion. If u have a personal story to back up ur opinion so much the better!
2007-01-24 00:14:28 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I always drank at home and in moderation, but when I turned 22, I smoked and by the time I was 28 I was addicted to Meth. I am clean off the meth now, and now it's an everyday fight to stay clean. I am 29 and have been clean for 8 months. I don't think the weed lead me to abuse Meth, I did. And my circle of "friends" has decreased by 80%. 75% was people I needed to lose, and the 5% are people I lost that I miss everyday.
2007-01-24 00:21:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It led me to get addicted to tobacco - a much harder drug, but I did it all the wrong way round anyway. LSD was the first drug I ever took. I lived for cannabis for decades and only ever dabbled with other drugs as a consequence of being immersed in 'drug culture'. There are so many different personality types and physical bodies that it is impossible to generalise about cannabis leading on to other drugs, or to the damage it can do by itself. One person could suffer irreparable psychological damage from the stronger strains of weed around nowadays, while the next guy could smoke in the evenings, cope with a job, do their college work or whatever. One person can be led into the wonderful world of other drugs, while another, more because of temperament than good sense, will only ever smoke weed. A big subject and a sketchy answer. In short - yes it can be for some people, but not inevitably for everyone.
2016-05-24 03:54:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't believe the Gateway drug theory. If you use it as a recreation then that's what it is. I think alot of people use drugs because they are lost. Searching for something that doesn't exist is the true "Gateway".
2007-01-24 00:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by lunarbabee 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA! Sorry, but that is just a myth. Weed relaxes you and makes you feel light and happy. Cocaine (so I'm told) revs you up. Why would anyone that enjoys a taste of the reefer, and enjoys relaxing want to try something that is the exact opposite? BTW, I realize I'm only using one drug example.
Do not believe propaganda. Its kind of like a priest giving marriage advice-completely worthless!
2007-01-24 00:25:35 · answer #4 · answered by tombollocks 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cannabis is def a gateway drug......
i have several loved ones that started off with cannabis and ended up in a bottomless pit of drug addiction i think that you can do as you wish when you're an adult as long as you're not hurting anyone but too much of anything is not good for you and it comes to the point where cannabis is no longer "enough" so they expiriment with other things to expirience the same feelings that cannabis once gave them.
2007-01-24 00:20:23 · answer #5 · answered by mylittlemela 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's a bunch of fear BS.
I've used it in moderation for years and so have some of my friends. I never felt the "need" to try stronger things or felt any serious addiction to cannabis.
2007-01-24 02:30:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen it be exactly for that many people. I think the fact that it's relatively affordable plays a big role.
Personally, I skipped straight to the hard stuff. No point in wasting time getting wasting. Do it right, do it SOLID!
2007-01-24 00:59:35 · answer #7 · answered by Soren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I know alot of people who have been smoking pot for 30 plus years who have never done anything harder. I would much rather see someone smoke pot than drink alcohol.
2007-01-24 00:28:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I have been around too many people that have their weed and never do anything else.
Then again I have known many who tried weed first and then went on to other things.
But a lot of people go from weed to other things and then back to weed, so.
2007-01-24 00:24:07 · answer #9 · answered by Dove 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that reality is for peope that can't HANDLE drugs!! @8-)
2007-01-24 00:22:51 · answer #10 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋