2007-04-17 08:18:35 · 13 answers · asked by J 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You should! It is!
2007-04-17 08:22:05 · answer #1 · answered by cuban friend 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Cigarettes are actually the biggest gateway drug in my opinion. Cigarettes are the most widely accepted and displayed form of drug use. You see them in movies as well as people walking down the street. This gives kids their first exposure to drugs. Also, I would think most drug attics would say they smoked a cigarette before trying harder drugs. Also, the main reason pot is a gateway drug, is because you have to get it from a drug dealer, who wants to sell you harder, more addictive drugs.
2007-04-17 08:24:35 · answer #2 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The Gateway drug thing is stupid. We might as well add caffeine to the list too.
2007-04-17 08:48:39 · answer #3 · answered by mrlebowski99 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
alcohol, marijuana and cigarettes are all considered gateway drugs. i dont' see it. people that want to use hard drugs will use them regardless. more times than not people who drink, smoke weed or tobacco never use harder drugs.
bill clinton didn't
al gore didn't
john kerry didn't
barack obama did
george w. did
2007-04-17 08:38:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol is "the gateway drug".
2007-04-17 08:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by Retired From Y!A 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana and alcohol have never proven to lead to stronger
street drugs. You might want to look into the good old prescription drugs- Oxycontin, Percocet, Vicodin- I know more people with addictions to these meds than cocaine or heroin.
2007-04-17 08:25:30 · answer #6 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i hate what alcohol does to families-that is backed by hard facts. I have never had to file a 51A on parents who smoked pot. (51A is mandated child abuse report FYI) I never have been to an abusive house where pot is the problem, and I have never met a pot smoker who wanted to try harder stuff. But alcoholics, from what I've observed working with families for years, are very likely to abuse painkillers and illegal hard drugs when drunk isn't enough anymore.
2007-04-17 08:30:15 · answer #7 · answered by Stormy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. you could I suppose. Its a legal drug though.
2007-04-17 08:34:29 · answer #8 · answered by sociald 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really, because alcohol is legal and Marijuana isn't. In places like Holland where it is legal it does not have that same connotation. If you think about it if you are accessing marijuana the person you are getting it from probably has access to other things too. It is not about marijuana it is about its legal status or lack thereof.
2007-04-17 08:25:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Sure. What's you're point, one is legal and the other isn't? Tonight I am going to have a drink with impunity. You can't some the same way. Sucks to be you, sucka!
2007-04-17 08:22:37 · answer #10 · answered by nom de paix 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
We could, but then we wouldn't be the hypocrites we ahve become.
2007-04-17 09:03:29 · answer #11 · answered by Charlie S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋