You may notice that no one says cannabis causes 430,000 deaths each year (like tobacco), or 85,000 annual deaths (like tobacco) or even 17,000 deaths (from other illicit drug use like heroin and cocaine), because no one dies from cannabis. So, it has to be associated with something bad, hence the terminology ‘gateway drug’.

If you write these statistics in your class, you will get a lot of push-back from your teachers, but someone has to tell the truth. Glad you are researching it. An excellent source of information is the website drugwarfacts dot com.

Good point. There are a bud-load of strains. (see what I did there?)

[quote Xeno Dragon][quote Supa Fly Steve]And what’s even more fantastic is that the biggest peddlers of cocaine in the world are…the CIA.[/quote]See, that I don’t know anything about. I did coke once, and swore it off, so didn’t do much research into it.[/quote]

It’s part of a rich tapestry. How else would they fund their secret wars? It get’s too complicated to summarize after a while. But cokes not bad. It’s expensive, can differ greatly in quality and only the good stuff leaves you without one hell of a headache the next day. It can make a good night though. I don’t have the drive to do it anymore though.

See, that I don’t know anything about. I did coke once, and swore it off, so didn’t do much research into it.

It’s ridiculous. And what’s even more fantastic is that the biggest peddlers of cocaine in the world are…the CIA.

I think this the most accurate description thus far.

The notion that smoking cannabis leads to stronger drugs as it’s effects will lessen with continued use, and in an attempt to achieve the SAME high one achieved by smoking cannabis alone you must seek increasingly stronger substances, is a belief held by most Republicans, right-wing Christians and those people who have little or no knowledge of substances that have been available in some instances for thousands of years. Or morons if you will. As Xeno says, many drugs cannot be easily compared to one another. If you smoke cannabis you will recede in to your own mind, speak slowly to those around you and laugh your *** off. If you snort coke you’ll become energetic, confident and fairly arrogant. If you eat magic mushrooms you’ll hallucinate. Ketamine will make time slow down, and you may also hallucinate. As you can see these effects are not even similar, and this reads as a list of drugs that I have personally used but no longer use. I mean I enjoy a beer, but I don’t drink everyday. Same applies here.

I don’t know how true the name is, but this ^^^ is why it is called a gateway drug.[/quote]

That’s the myth. I know the real reason. See, I can get high off of any pot, and I’ve been smoking heavily for years. No one buys other drugs because they’re the same as pot, but stronger. Only someone who knows nothing of drug effects can perpetuate that. Acid is nothing like pot, coke is nothing like shrooms. They just don’t compare. People say it’s a gateway drug because your dealer is usually a pot dealer, who happens to have some other stuff he tries to sell because he doesn’t want it. So, curious people, such as myself, who have always wanted to try such things are opened to a OPPORTUNITY through pot. But it has nothing to do with the chemicals, just availability.

I don’t know how true the name is, but this ^^^ is why it is called a gateway drug.

D.A.R.E. is my gateway drug.

It’s all that cannabis you’re smoking. It’s making you sluggish![/quote]
How did you know? O___O

[quote jcd]Especially if someone gives you the wrong answer.[/quote]
Don’t I know it >.>

It’s all that cannabis you’re smoking. It’s making you sluggish!

So, I guess it just depends on the person really.

Like, if I ever found out my children were using marijuana, I wouldn’t be happy about it, but I wouldn’t have a coronry over it. But if I ever caught them using anything else. I’d cut off all their fingers :)