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

Marijuana is the gateway drug and not only that, people are lacing that shit all the time. You don't have any friends when it comes to that lifestyle. Don't be stupid. Just say no to drugs and find better friends.

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Gloomy · F

The gateway drug theory is bullshit and has very little ground to stand on.

To single out young women cause you think they'll be sexually abused is nonsense too.
Rapists spike drinks with knockout drugs and nasty things at parties can happen when guys are pieces of shit.
What you are doing is a kind of victim blaming.

I'll keep drinking and enjoying my weed

RocktheHouse · M

@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.

Gloomy · F

@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.

Gloomy · F

@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.