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Study: Marijuana leads to hard drugs

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Like you need a study to deduce this? If you use drugs you are typically gonna try many of them and since mary jane is the most reaily available it's usually used first and most. The others follow once you get in the drug scene when they become available.

Me I hated mariuana and have tried it maybe 3x but it was first. I've done LSD maybe 25x. Much better high.

 
That study doesn't prove anything about whether using pot will cause someone to go on to harder drugs. All it shows is that those who get into heavier drugs may have started with pot.
 
Well what about all the folks I know who started with pot (or more likely alcohol), then moved to harder drugs, then grew up and got jobs, got tired of the harder drugs, and reverted back to just smoking pot occasionally (or sometimes often).

Is marijuana a gateway to sobriety for these people?
 
imo, its because when you do weed you figure out drugs feel good so you get curious about other stuff.


edit: i mean to say for some users.

ps: i didn't start with weed.
 
first off marijuana is not a drug...
and two...who cares...just dont do drugs...
if ur so against it
but go to amsterdam...

and dont listen to me if u dont want to..i sleep w/ an ak under my pillow...=)
ahahahah
thats my protection beacH!
 
Could this possibly be because kids in our society are brought up being taught that all illegal drugs are horrible and will be the end to your normal life so when they get experience with marijuana they might wonder "hey, this isn't so bad at all, I wonder what else the government was lying about"
 
here's my take on it, bear with my metaphor

We have two guys "Johnny Badman" and "Jimmy Goodguy"

Mr Badman has an addictive personality, and has a problem with substance abuse. Johnny starts smoking weed. He begins hanging around people who do coke, "hmm, I'll try this" said Johnny. Boom, he's another statistic in the "hard drugs" catagory. Jimmy Goodguy never touches anything, because he knows drugs are bad.

Blame the people, not the drug. That's like saying "beer causes people to drink hard liquor". Well, if the person wants hard liquor, or has the personality for it, he'll get to it sooner or later.

I believe that these two groups of people are making up the majority of those in this study.
 
Geno, The problem with that is you are blaming people only with Addictive personalities. Which isn't fair or true in most cases.

Humans have what is called CURIOSITY for the unknown. We are curious creatures by nature. So if we do something, and enjoy, then are presented with something that creates different feelings than we've felt, we are naturally going to be curious. Now some people are "brave" enough, or I guess enjoy the high enough, to follow through in their quest for knowledgment/getting high to try something else. Other people are scared/smart and don't go any further.

It's not based on the fact that someone has a personality disorder. EVERYONE I've known that has smoked weed, has atleast done Acid = VERY bad drug. Now is this because of Curiosity or because Weed is a gateway drug? A lot of them have done Coke or X - no crack or H. But I'm talking just normal regular college kids from back in the day here, not some Addictive personallity or strung out addict. All of them had their heads on straight, thankg god, and have quit their stuff. It's all because one of them said "lets smoke some weed" one time, and we all smoked and ended up having a good time (plus a case of the mad munchies!). So we did it again, and again. But it's not because we had problems, we liked to have fun.

What group do they fit in? They tried Acid, X, and maybe even coke too. So weed in this case was a gateway drug. But for something to be a gatway, the person has to ALLOW it to be a gateway. Obviously if they have the personality to do an illegal drug in the first place, they have the potential to do others. But some people stop, while most try other things. I don't think a medical study will ever be able to tell you what makes humans do things. With so many different reasons for each individual person, it's not black and white, there is a huge gray area.

Peer Pressure is another reason for turning to hard drugs. If they are looking to get into the "in croud" or if they have people leaning on them all the time, it's human nature to trust and to break down and occationally do stuff we wouldn't normally do.



 
ALL drugs, including cigarettes and especially alcohol are gateway drugs. This is new news? I wonder who funded that study.
 
Marijuana led me to smoking opium. Opium, now THAT is a great drug. Highly reccomended, but its so difficult to get ahold of, both red and white. I didn't start smoking ciggarettes or drinking until after smoking marijuana.

Spac3d
 
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Pot may not be a gateway drug, but it obviously has some serious effects on attention span as evidenced by you and others in this thread.
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Now Fausto... Why would you expect people to read the article instead of spouting off their canned knee-jerk reactions?


Lethal
 
Stupid people... READ THE FREAKING ARTICLE BEFORE YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. 90% of you here didn't even read the article. I guess that shows your bias and thus I cannot believe a word you people say on the subject.
 
Originally posted by: apoppin
Study: Marijuana leads to hard drugs
Teen-agers who smoked marijuana before turning 17 were more likely to use and abuse harder drugs and alcohol as young adults, a study of Australian twins released Tuesday said
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Whatdayathink?
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The article doesn't really make the case at all. Maybe the study does, but I'm sceptical on many fronts. For one thing, if you're already smokin' pot, your source probably has a whole cornucopia of nefty drugs he'd like you to try. Hence, its availability and promotion. Lack of realistic drug education also plays a role (DARE being a promotion vehicle for drug use, imo). Every one of my friends in high school used marijuana, some of us also used LSD, but that was it. None of us became drug addicts, and all hold respectable jobs today twenty-five years later. I don't think any of them even still use marijuana today, at least, not regularly. This is yet another study John Walters will twist to his ends to promote the "gateway" theory.

 
Originally posted by: LeStEr
Among smokers before age 17, 48 percent abused or became dependent on an illicit drug, while 33 percent of the early nonsmokers became abusers later on in life
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So they are saying that 81% of people that smoke marijuana abuse a drug of some sort later in their life? I personally dont agree with this at all.
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No, that's not what they're saying....but you can be sure that is how John Walter's will promote it.

 
Originally posted by: Saltin
Studies are Studies. I've read plenty that say pot isnt a gateway drug.
I've smoked pot for years and never had a desire to try anything "harder".
People who try pot are probably more likely to try other drugs, sure. That's more a function of their personality than it is of pot's nature.
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From someone who doesn't smoke, I tend to agree.

 
A study is based on who they study.

Study one group, and you will have one answer. Study another and the answer may be the total opposite of the first.

All depends on who is being studied.
 
Make it legal and I bet whatever gateway aspects of marijuana exist will be no more than that which is experienced after drinking booze.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Make it legal and I bet whatever gateway aspects of marijuana exist will be no more than that which is experienced after drinking booze.
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It is legal in Amsterdam and I bet if you approached many of the dealers on the street, they'll have OTHER things for you to try. I'm only telling you what I've been told from friends who have been there.

The study is only proof that many people are followers and often use poor judgement while making decisions about drugs. They feel a buzz and like it...then they made decisions with an open mind. That makes them more likely to try drugs such as heroin or cocaine. I agree with the study, though I know it's not the case 70-80% of the time.
 
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