The recreational use of marijuana has been glamorized over the years by such on-screen duos as Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, but is the drug everything that Hollywood makes it out to be? Then again, are we being hypocritical by allowing alcohol consumption but not cannabis usage? With passionate believers on both sides of the argument, it will be interesting to see what happens when the smoke clears.
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Marijuana is a 'Terminus,' not a Gateway
- From NORML
By National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws - Working to Reform Marijuana Laws
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Waste of my time and money
This Herb is not a gateway if anything is I would say liquor is. Forty years and I never moved up like most I would not touch any of the other problem drugs.
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 19, 2008 7:22AM
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Gateway huh? I've Heard that one before...
are people still believing this propoganda? how can something be a GATEWAY drug? you want to talk about about gateways why don't i hear anything about alcohol and tobacco? asemili could not have proven the point any better, it's a gateway (in a sense) because of it's prohibition. think for a moment that marijuana was legal and tobacco was illegal... same case as asemili said. you are buying your crazy high nicotine level cigs from a guy that is hooking you up. he runs out and sends you to his main guy, the guy says i have no cigs but i do have some heroin.... so is tobacco a gateway to now???? this GATEWAY cop out is just an easy way the government can keep their thumb on us... THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT CONTROL WHAT COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH AND CANNOT CONTROL WHAT I DECIDE TO PUT IN IT...
- Turbojdmef9
January 27, 2009 11:21AM
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The "Gateway" theory has always been a silly one...
Honestly, I don't understand how such a silly over-simplified argument ever became such a permanent propaganda point on this issue. I mean the whole "gateway" concept is based on statistics that are a backwards correlation fallacy, and that is not a hard concept to understand.
Just because many users of hard drugs are more likely to have started with Marijuana, does NOT mean most Marijuana users eventually move onto harder drugs! Most of them certainly don't. And it doesn't take a genius to see that, there are millions and millions of Marijuana users, so where are all the millions and millions of hard drug users?
So honestly, how can Marijuana be blamed for such an effect?
Correlation by itself certainly doesn't always equal causation, and worst yet their logic is backwards, looking (from the wrong perspective point) at where hard drug users started, rather than the more valid statistics of where most Marijuana users go. I think most people agree that this makes sense.
There has never been a gateway, it never existed as a property/effect of Marijuana in reality, it was a made up statistical twisting/lie... Part of the endless list of propaganda points created over the many years of this illogical drug war.
I really hope people wake up and start seeing the truth, we need a change to policy here, for the good of the whole issue, because the same old simple solution of treating the problem with the force of the law, just doesn't work; and actually makes things a lot worse! And legalization may very well be a better, result producing solution, to the real problems with Marijuana, rather than the artificial problems created by Prohibition, which prohibition then fights, in it's wonderful circular logic... -_-
- Okinkun
March 8, 2009 4:50AM
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