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.
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.
How D.A.R.E. you!
Its been my experience that 125cc motorcycles, Cessna 172’s, DJI Mini-2 drones, and Ender-3’s are also gateway drugs. Less illegal but just as damaging financially.
I often call e-bikes gateway drugs to motorcycles :)
I’m older, for me normal bikes were gateway drugs to motorcycles.
On the other hand, for me normal bicycles were gateway drugs to even more expensive normal bicycles…
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.
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.
Gateway drugs should open more things
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!
I believe originally, it was used to incarcerate Latin Americans, hence the naming of “Marihuana” and later, “Marijuana” to make it sound more Spanish.
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
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.
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]
It goes along with how they categorize cannabis as “drug” while alcohol for some reason gets it’s own special category.
DARE programs referring to “drugs, alcohol, and tobacco,” and middle school me thinking “I’m pretty sure those are all drugs…”
Because one is legal and one isn’t…
If alcohol or tobacco was illegal, they’d be treated like illegal drugs
Laws aren’t always correct.
Do you understand it now?
No, not really.
So if cannabis is a “drug” because it’s illegal and alcohol is “alcohol” because it’s legal, why is ibuprofen a “drug” and not “alcohol”? Or maybe, did you misunderstand something, and the condescending tone is not only embarrassing, but completely unwarranted?
This is so dumb, and both of you are very obviously 'Murica brained where you just can’t think of any difference there is oitside the US. Both Alcohol and Nicotine are drugs, and so are medications, they’re just legal drugs. It’s not “not a drug” and “drug (meaning illegal”, it’s “legal drug” and “illegal drug”.
That’s circular reasoning. “It’s considered a drug because it’s illegal, and it’s illegal because it’s considered a drug.”
It hard to start somewhere. Look back in history and see where it started.
Because one is legal and one isn’t…
Both alcohol and cannabis are legal.
But they are still treated very differently legally despite both being drugs.
Alcohol isn’t a drug, it’s a drink
If you’re gonna do a quote, the use quotation marks. It doesn’t matter if it’s old or recent, just saves everyone time and effort by not misunderstanding you.
“Marijuana is not a drug. It’s a plant; it just grows that way! Drugs you gotta do shit chemically to it.”
Marijuana is not a drug. I sucked dick for coke. You ever suck dick for some marijuana? Didn’t think so.
Realistically, there was a girl at our town fair in my middle school who offered to do that. I think she just wanted a way to get with a guy though? And secondarily weed. Not sure.
“Lean isn’t a drug, it’s a drink”
Alcohol is a psychoactive drug
Person 1: You know what? You’re right. They should all be deregulated.
Person 2: You know what? You’re right. They should all be illegal.
2 : Mormons
EDIT: Although not sure , given how Utah/SLC is. IT’s a shitty joke, I apologise.
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 don’t think those are “gateways” though. I think the real gateway is when you try something that you’re taught is vilified and told it will make you stupid and ruin your life, but then all it really does is chill you out. The gateway is realizing you’ve been lied to and you wonder what else was a lie so you try other things. Alcohol if anything has the opposite problem.
100%. There’s also the fact that when weed is illegal, the only way to get it is through someone who likely sells other illegal substances so it’s not hard to start messing around with other things after smoking for a bit.
Weed is only a gateway drug when its illegal
Crazy I had to scroll down this far for the reason it’s actually called a gateway drug.
Well, the ACTUAL reason it’s called a gateway drug is fear mongering.
Internet explorer ass comment, 2007 called, they want their hot take back
They’re so proud of their “hot take,” they took the screenshot themselves to post elsewhere
