Harry Dresden
Adamantium Member
yep good point.....the people i knew who did Coke or Speed all smoked cigs.....only a few pot smokers i knew smoked cigs.....most beer drinkers i knew smoked cigs too....the great majority of pot smokers do not move on to the hard stuff......even those who have tried them.....and that is fact....there are people here saying pot is what got all those hard drug users going....thats bullshit.....and if someone under 21 is drinking....then that Alcohol is illegal....So it's not a gateway drug because it can't be a gateway drug unless every lasholt person started with marijuana.
BTW we are talking about illegal drugs not alcohol.
No one said all of them. But if someone is smoking pot, it dramatically increases their susceptibility to harder drugs. Again common sense.
Then how did we get millions of cocaine addicts?
It is estimated that about two million people are cocaine addicts in the United States, and that between 22 and 25 million people have used cocaine at least once.
Cocaine Use Facts - Cocaine Statistics on Addiction and Abuse
How many of those millions do you think started with pot?
Every cocaine user started with cigarettes Its the natural progression for someone addicted to uppers.
If anything potheads are more likely to go into psychedelics like shrooms and lsd.
Personally I know 3 people who regularly (maybe twice a month) snort cocaine. One of them does every drug (cigs, alcohol, weed, molly, lsd, shrooms, dmt), the other two don't touch weed but are chain smokers who also drop molly from time to time.
Cigarettes are the real gateway drug.