Marijuana is its own special category, but club drugs (which for some reason include date rape drugs), inhalants and steroids are all in a “miscellaneous” category together?

Also, note all the ridiculous drug propaganda lies.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    The question is whether Marijuana use in and of itself encourages or preface additional drug use.

    I would argue that in many ways it does. Marijuana is–or was–illegal. Alcohol is legal, but age restricted. If you are willing to use a substance that is (was) entirely illegal, you are more likely going to be willing to try other drugs that are legitimately addictive, because you’ve already crossed one of the major hurdles. If alcohol had been illegal for the same amount of time that marijuana had been, then I would agree that alcohol was likely a gateway drug as well.

    I’m in favor of de-scheduling marijuana entirely. But I think that it’s disingenuous for people to act as though there weren’t serious problems with chronic and underage marijuana use.

    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      You’re saying that it has nothing to do with marijuana itself that make it a gateway drug, only that we’ve made it illegal.

      That means anything we make illegal is a ‘gateway X’.

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      If you are willing to use a substance that is (was) entirely illegal, you are more likely going to be willing to try other drugs that are legitimately addictive, because you’ve already crossed one of the major hurdle

      It’s honestly rather ludicrous to still see 60’s propaganda being parroted. You’re on the internet, dude. There’s no need for you to be that ignorant.