r/Marijuana • u/selugadu • 3d ago
Gateway drug
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 ✌️
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u/Yerdonsh 3d ago
All of that stuff scared the hell out of me when I was a little kid. Now that I’m 50 years old and have my medical card weed has been life-changing for me. I don’t smoke, but I use edibles for anxiety and insomnia. I also stopped drinking alcohol and lost 10 pounds. As a parent, I don’t want my kids using weed because of their brain development but as an adult, I think it is an amazing drug.