illegal gateway drug. The implication is pretty obvious.
Give it a few years and the moniker will change in places where it has been legalized. Some other illegal drug will be rebranded as the gateway.
Im14andthisisdeep
This is literally something that is taught in highschool, not some brave, contrarian belief.
So brave
The classification of cannabis changed to incarnate more black people. It’s a historical fact and it’s sad that many people don’t know that.
Just gonna drop this quote form a Nixon aide here:
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did”
The war on drugs was a war on blacks and anti-Vietnam activists.
incarnate
Either you mean incarcerate, or else it is one hell of a gateway
Yeah, sorry. I’m tired and English isn’t my mother tongue.
I didn’t mean anything by it, and assumed it was autocorrect. I was just amused by the visual of it in my head.
I smoked pot and now I have a new isekai life with superpowers and a band of roaming catgirl assassins who enforce my will upon an otherwise cruel, dark, and corrupt world in an alternate dimension.
This could happen to you.
…yes please!
Gateway drugs should open more things
It wasn’t just race, it was Black People and anyone else that associated with them. If someone went against authority and smoked weed, they were a danger to authority.
It was a litmus test
But pretty fucking close for .ml account
Hippies too
I believe originally, it was used to incarcerate Latin Americans, hence the naming of “Marihuana” and later, “Marijuana” to make it sound more Spanish.
Gateway to free thinking
Been smoking weed for over 50 years and I never found that gate!
That’s because you were too stoned to look for it. You set us up man.
I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for the sumbitch! I usually just climbed over the fence.
As someone that’s smoked weed for 20 years, I think it’s too potent now and consider the plant to be something that got abused by humans the same way humans abuse everything they touch.
Don’t be a stoner.
Use it as medicine.
Stoners are junkies.
After 20 years I’m finally realizing this and using it more as only medicine.
I remember a quote I read a looong time ago… “If your eyes get red you are abusing it.” From that point on when your eyes deeply red, it’s not medicine, it’s an escape.
Caffeine: am I a joke to you?
Apparentely it’s only considered a dependence and not an addiction, even though there are a lot of discussions about it.
Pathologically reinforced caffeine use induces dependence, but not an addiction.[13] For a drug to induce an addiction from repeated use at sufficiently high doses, it must activate the brain’s reward circuitry, particularly the mesolimbic pathway.[13]
The war on drugs has always been bullshit. I wonder how many bosses have said “drug free workplace” or principals saying “drug free campus” while holding a cup of coffee.
I’m not for prohibition whatsoever, but have you seen the difference between someone who chose coffee as their drug of choice and spend decades drinking it versus smoking meth?
Depends if they’re using an intoxicating amount as well. Plenty of folks around on a dose of amphetamines that would have you and me stimming our brains out. For work that doesn’t involve dangerous machines or the safety of others, I say, As long as I can’t tell you’re high on something and it’s not effecting your work, whatever makes your day more enjoyable have at.
But let’s compare the potential for abuse for a moment
Don’t you dare discompare a cup of coffee to my morning meth
I’m making fun of all the propaganda.
For example:/Someone who is against the justice system as it is isn’t advocating for murder to be legal.
Caffine. The kids drug of choice
I believe that sugar and caffeine are the real gateway drugs, they are the 1st chemical compounds many people are addicted to.
Gateway to what? Harder cookies? A double shot of espresso? They’re definitely drugs, but I think to call them a gateway isn’t so accurate.
Dependency
“Gateway” is subjective, but sugar is certainly the first substance people encounter that influences cognitive behavior. Consume this thing and feel this way.
Of course that doesn’t mean you’re going to go and shoot up some heroin, but both are certainly “addictive”.
And salt and fat
Both of those are biologically necessary. So if we’re going that route, oxygen.
You can live just fine without consuming sugar or caffeine.
Dude… they’re literally banning fast-food ads in the UK. This is no time to get pedantic haha
You can absolutely get addicted to salt and fat
And we do need sugar… Carbs are sugar. You need carbs
Don’t take this personally but it kinda sucks you got upvoted this much
Sugar is a bit of a stretch, since we also do need it. We just get it in a lot of food, since a lot of the foods we eat also need sugar to grow and do things.
You can get sugar from carbs, the issue is refined sugars
We do need a small amount of glucose, that’s why I was specific that we don’t need to consume it. We can make the amount we actually need from the protein we eat.
Whether that’s ideal or not is a separate conversation, but we can live our whole lives without consuming sugar or carbs.
We’d literally die if we didn’t eat salt or fat.
https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/ask-dietitian-can-you-survive-without-carbs/
Can you survive without any carbs in your diet? An army of zero-carb-diet social media influencers seem to think so.
EDIT: To clarify, my whole point in this thread has been that you can get addicted to salt and fat, both of which are things you need. I don’t know why the fuck anyone would want to ramble about whether you can “fully quit carbs”. Maybe the best question here is “Why would you and why are you even talking about it?”. Again: you can get addicted to things you need. Consuming it in excess is what makes it an addiction. There’s no rule that says you can only get addicted to things you want but not need
The gateway is having to deal with shitty people that used to be in those crowds.
Its becoming less of an issue as more people use it responsibly like social drinkers and you dont have to deal with a complete waste of space to society to get it or be around others who partake.
Reefer madness is bullshit, but its also not 100% harmless either. Chronic use of THC still almost certainly causes GABA disregulation for instance.
You have a stupid majority who act like weed is just as bad as heroine and meth and THE gateway drug, but the potheads who are just horrible people spouting about how its completely harmless aren’t helping the cause either.
Also people with mental illness in their family history should probably not use it. But that is true for all drugs, including alcohol.
Alcohol and nicotine are the first step in the path of despair. But cannabis is the gateway to a good time. Change my mind.
Eh alcohol can be enjoyed in moderation. Personally I massively prefer it to weed
Same. I’m not actually a fan of weed. No ill effects, just not more enjoyable to not consuming it for me, and less enjoyable than the right amount of alcohol (but much more enjoyable than too much alcohol, so balance is key).
Are you really having a good time when the munchies hit but you’re out of snacc?
A little planning ahead can help with that.
A tip that has helped me a lot with munchies: instead of chips and taco bell, reach for some fruit. Solves munchies and cottonmouth.
I’ve been rawdogging life for 31 years
I dare you to try it
I dare you
Borrrriiinnnngggg.
I tried, it was terrible.
Healthy and sober is no way to go through life son.
Nicotine definitely shouldn’t get a seat at this table.
good on new Zealand for slowly letting it die out.
