Slippery slope reasoning is a logical fallacy.

Your assertion shouldn't be 'everyone I know that does meth smokes weed'. To validate your claim it has to be 'everyone I know who used weed eventually used meth".

Yes though... smoke weed and it's only a matter of time before you're robbing people for meth money. Sounds legit. Carl Sagan was a known meth head wasn't he?

This logic is on par with creationism.

1) no.

2) crowdsourcing parental advice is idiotic.

For me, it all started with making suicides at the soda fountain. 15 years later I was blowing lines off passed out chicks.

Although in my younger days I frequented the use of LSD and Shrooms I haven't had them in years but nothing wrong with a little weed from time to time.

Eh, I don't necessarily agree with #2. Sure, you probably shouldn't make a sole decision based on what people on the internet say, but that doesn't mean it can't help to frame your thinking.

Only in a far flung sense...

You have to think of cause and effect.....versus correlation.

Yes, people who do harder drugs often start with weed and alcohol...but that is a correlation.

The weed and alcohol doesn't cause them to jump to harder drugs.....or there would be millions upon millions of more people doing harder drugs.


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(like the old , the more churches there are in a town...the more liquor stores there are so therefore church CAUSES people to drink.......fallacy...

its an example of confusing correlation with causality, a basic logical error)

This is 100% correct.

Correlation does not equal causation.

Oh, man. I just got into a lengthy debate about drugs with a good friend of mind recently.

I think it started when I said that drugs should be legal. He flipped out and said they shouldn't be because, according to him, "there are no advantages". LMAO

I'm like: "Dude, what's the advantage to anything you don't need to survive? If you like to do something and it doesn't hurt anyone else in the process, you should be completely free to do so". Then he actually made the marijuana is a gateway drug argument ROFL

Really, what it boiled down to is that he doesn't like drugs. He doesn't do them and, in his perception, everyone he knows that does drugs is a loser with horrible work ethic. He legitimately made the claim that he could conclude whether someone was a recreational drug user by talking to them for an hour because "they're all idiots". I tried explaining to him that there are tons of recreational drug users that live totally normal and productive lives and he'd probably never know they did drugs unless they told him.. But no. Not possible according to him.

Honest to God, I felt like I was speaking to HonestChiefFan.



This is about the best way I could ever put it.

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This.

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I don't personally care what people do. If you want to become a burnout or ruin your life with meth or whatever, do it in your basement and don't steal from me to support your habit or expect me to pay your medical bills.[/QUOTE]

I do care what people do, not because I "nanny" but because I know it does/will affect me. If people doing their own thing had no effect on me than go ahead and cook your brain.

Can it be? Sure. But, it truly isn't for everyone.

Seems more like a correlation versus causation argument to me.

As for the parenting issue(no kids here) I have friends who introduced their kids to weed by being honest and letting them know they still smoke and if the kid ever decided they wanted to try they would prefer they trying it with mom and dad first.

The kids from both families whom I speak of are now very responsible adults who smoke weed and have good jobs.

Gateway to what?

Marijuana is bad enough. It's a Class 1, so I'm not sure what you mean with all this "Gateway to harder stuff". Technically its classification is as hard as it gets.....

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