Marijuana is a gateway drug. The US Government made it one. All your life you’re told about the horrors of marijuana and how highly addictive it is and blah blah fucking blah. Once you actually smoke it you realize…fuck….ive been lied to… wonder what else they lied to me about. So you begin to experiment. Some are smart about it and actually research others…not so much. Erowid.org is the greatest site. This isnt to say everyone who smokes marijuana will move on to other things, but smoking it in a way kind of opens your eyes and lets you look at the world in a different way.
At the same time though, any gateway drug arguement is kind of bullshit. I mean the ever so over quoted “all drug addicts started with marijuana” thing. How many of them drank alcohol first? How many smoked a cigarette? Drank a soda?
I think the real solution to this problem is to actually educate our youth about drugs. Ya know like using real facts and not saying shit like MDMA takes ice cream scoops out of your brain. That way people actually know what theyre getting into and can make much more informed choices. They can look at each drug individually and decide wither or not that was something they wanted to take. I would never ever in a million years touch heroin no matter how many pounds and pounds of weed i smoked.