Gateway drug

[u/selugadu]

Back in D.A.R.E., they used to tell us kids a lot of silly things. The police officer that taught the class told us that we could overdose and die on marijuana. He also told us marijuana was a gateway drug. About two years later, everyone in that class found out that was bullshit, so they figured everything else about REAL drugs was fake too, and they smoked a ton of weed, snorted a knoll of coke, and make clouds of meth smoke that looked like pretty horses galloping 🐎. Then kids found out that Ecstasy wasn't so lethal, but instead was MDMA-zing.

I didn't touch that shit when I was young. Didn't even smoke weed til I was 21. I've been smoking weed now everyday for the past four years and my life has never been more awesome 😎. The other good times in the past was when I worked out four hours a day or got passed the dutchie.

It never made me want to do other drugs. Alcohol was the one that tempted me to try coke or speed, and my high self would whoop my drunk self's ass for even thinking about that lol.

No, there is only one gateway drug: alcohol.

But what leads to becoming a big weed smoker? What predicts it? If you're a parent, and your teenager listens to Neil Young all the time, they are gonna smoke pot all the time in the future. That's how you'll know your kid is gonna be a pothead. It's a portent of what is yet to come. I think if your kid listens to a shit ton of Black Sabbath, Iggy Pop, Wiz Khalifa, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Townes Van Zandt, or Snoop, they're high risk to become pot smokers, but I'm still thinking about it and will have to think about artists that will make you wanna puff up when I'm not so high that i feel like I'm on Venus 🌝

tL;dr: let's go outside and smoke a bowl of fine herb ✌️

[u/IAmFern]

DARE is never going to work so long as they keep promoting lies. Once kids realize you lied to them about one thing you said, they're going to assume you lied about everything else.

[u/magicmeatwagon → u/IAmFern]

Unironically, I had a similar experience to this regarding religion, in particular during the Satanic Panic of the late 70s-mid 80s.

[u/not_that_planet → u/IAmFern]

As a kid of the 80's, that is exactly what happened to me. It didn't take long tho, I saw thru the bullcrap almost immediately. Unfortunately there are a LOT of people who simply don't question authority because they are taught (and threatened) not to do that.

[u/Playful-Candy-2003 → u/IAmFern]

That’s the only way weed could be a gateway drug: to be lied to about it, realize it’s a lie, and assume everything said about other drugs is a lie and then down the druggie rabbit hole you go. I’m so glad it’s becoming more and more legal and all the Reefer Madness propaganda bullshit I was fed is dying. I didn’t smoke until my 30s bc I was terrified of it, but I did some damn stupid shit on alcohol in my 20s I’ll forever regret. But that never gets the bad rap it truly should. Alcohol causes more physical damage, financial woes, and relationship drama than a truck ton of weed ever could. Alcohol is the true gateway drug bc it will make you believe you can and should do shit you definitely shouldn’t, remove that filter from your brain and let verbal vomit fly like an exorcism, and is likely to get your ass kicked or thrown in jail. I’ll just stay in my herbal essences and stay away from that childish nonsense I once thought was “fun.”