For a young woman to smoke Marijuana or drink alcohol excessively is a very stupid decision.

@Gloomy The chart below clearly demonstrates The vast majority of hard substance users did not start by using those hard substances. Alcohol and Marijuana are both the top gateway drugs. I've never known any cocaine addicts who didn't smoke Marijuana or drink excessively prior to using coke. Chart agrees, Marijuana has a predisposition effect.

@RocktheHouse 😂 your interpretation of this stat is way off.

The people surveyed need to be addicts in the first place and there is a predisposition for addiction and logically people will start consuming legal and easily accessible drugs.

@RocktheHouse Not even the American Addiction center fully agrees with this theory

[quote] Conclusions
There is evidence that using some substances early in development does result in a greater probability that an individual will abuse other substances; however, the reason for this is not well understood. This condition may represent some combination of inherent factors (e.g., genetic) and the interaction of environmental factors (e.g., peers, learning, stress, etc.).

The relationship between early alcohol use and later use of other drugs has the strongest evidence to suggest that it may be a gateway drug; however, the gateway theory suffers from a number of potential methodological flaws. At the current time, it is unable to specify a causal relationship between early use of any drug and the potential to use or abuse other drugs later. Instead, these relationships may be more consistent with the common liability model [/quote]
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/the-addiction-cycle/gateway-drugs

And the article which you took your source from is way more nuanced as well.

@HeidiA Young women are prey... that is just the reality of it. Yes, young men have to be careful too. However, drug dealers, traffickers and rapists go after young women.

@RocktheHouse like Donald Trump.

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@RocktheHouse Where did I say that going to an Ivy League university makes anyone smart? You somehow read that into my post.

There are, however, lots of smart folks on those campuses.

@RedBaron Why are you promoting Marijuana to young girls? My business involves exposing degenerate scoundrels who use narcotics to take advantage of young women. And I'm going to keep on fighting and exposing them.

Who knows what terrble things happened to those women when they were under the influence. Most women are afraid to say anything; they're ashamed. A lot of those women are hurting on the inside.

@RocktheHouse I am not promoting anything. Just refuting your Reefer Madness propaganda.

@SunshineGirl That is true, it would be better to regulate the marijuana industry in the US. However, the public cannot get the wrong idea. Marijuana is not a safe drug. There's no safe way to consume Marijuana. Legalizing it should be followed by educating the public, which seems impossible in this age of disinformation.

@RocktheHouse I think exactly the same can be said of alcohol. But banning substances for which there is a demand is impossible and serves only to incentivise crime and endanger the health and wellbeing of the most vulnerable. Regulation and education (funded by sales tax on the substance) are the least worst options.

@RocktheHouse I don't know where you got your research about cannabis from but it is fundamentally flawed. I smoked my first joint soon after my 17th birthday - and I'll be 70 in 6 weeks time. Neither I, nor the vast majority of my friends, ever graduated to anything stronger. That's empirical enough data to satisfy me.

@ArtieKat When you were 17? It's a whole different world out there grandpa.

@RocktheHouse Insult me all you like. It doesn't change the facts.

@WonderGirl Marijuana is legal in your country but i bet you we have more potheads than you do.