I am 16, I smoke like a chimney, and I've been dealing for about two years. You want to know why it's a gateway drug? It's because it isn't legal. The ignorance passed down from generation to generation is disgusting. Every dealer I have ever come in contact with does not only sell marijuana. The reason for this is because it's not exactly that profitable. At least not comparatively. You can make a large amount of money from it, but the fact is almost every other drug can get you more, such as LSD or generic pills.
People worry about this drug, but if they worried about whats around it much more could get done. You want kids to stop "abusing" drugs? Start with all the adderall they sell to their friends during exam times at school. It was without a doubt the most used drug in the school at the time. But I digress, and so to return to the point, LSD can easily yield a 200 to 300 percent profit. I do not personally handle it, but my best friend does. As a side note, I'd like to add that Robert Kennedy is a bastard for making the LSD laws the way he did. The disgusting propaganda put out by this government makes me want to vomit. Mushrooms can hold a large profit as well, while marijuana (of course depending where you live) usually only gives about 125 percent back.
I have yet to slow down. I smoke about 3 grams a day give or take a few in either direction depending on what I have to do that day. My schoolwork has still been kept in 100 percent order and my friend and family life still in absolutely perfect shape. My parents know I smoke, and they do not care. Drugs do not cause people to **** up. People cause themselves to, just look at alcoholics. If you can keep up with it such as myself, then it shouldn't be a problem.
It needs to be legalized. Just to give you an idea, recent studies estimate the trade of marijuana in this country at around 35 billion dollars a year. If you collected money for a few years at that rate you could tare down every school, hospital and place of religious worship in this country and rebuild it. Above all, you will kill the gateway effect. Not completely, but I know that if it were to be legalized I would not know a single drug dealer right now, nor would I be one. What the hell are they waiting for?!
People just need to be informed. I should be sitting here with crystals in my spine, holes in my brain, and a vast array of medical problems. None of the things previously mentioned apply. Stop letting people tell you shit like this.
In a special address to the original poster: Rats? Heroin? Rat-Gateways? How are you going to sit there and tell someone a study like that. Do rats even react to THC in the same way a human brain does? Do they have the receptors? Are you an idiot? Did you just degrade me to a rat? Hello, I am right here. If you want to know if its a gateway drug just ask. I can tell you why it is or isn't for ever situation.. A rat? Jesus.
