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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
OK. What does that have to do with what I said? I'll answer for you....nothing. Wow.
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I'd say it does have something to do with it. You said something along the lines of "nearly every person who does hard drugs did marijuana first".
That's probably true, but what of it? They probably drank before that, and smoked cigarettes before that. You can't just say that it's irrelevant. If smoking weed leads to something, drinking booze before that means just as much. It's exactly the same point you are making.
But bla bla bla. I don't buy this gateway business. Some kids are going to try it, others aren't. It has more to do with personality and rebellion than any gateway idea. Some kids are willing to do something they could get in trouble for. The kids who start smoking and drinking earlier were probably doing other things they shouldn't have been doing all along.
Eating Halloween candy in bed, looking at dad's secret magazines, stealing from your sister... Being a "rebel" (though smoking weed hardly qualifies) starts long before you get that first chance to get high.