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Originally Posted by Saccopoo
It's not, though there is always the potential in the individual (read "individual" versus a total analytical look at a culture as a whole) for "light" drug usage to transition into "hard" drug usage due to the breakdown of self-imposed mores that exist in a persons subconscious.
My previous example of chick stipping to prostitute isn't far off - at least from showing a corollary/causation cross mapping potential within an individual. In fact, guys attempting to turn chicks into accepting prostitution as an acceptable method for whatever always start with getting them into the stripping trade first. (And there are in fact guys who do this exact thing - going to diners, whatever, and looking for prospective girls to breakdown over time to get them into the whoring trade.)
Once those initial internal psychological more walls are broken down, it's substantially easier break down the thicker, stronger ones.
Same thing with the cigarettes, booze, marijuana, coke, crack to meth transition. Sure, not everyone does it, but once the initial wall is breached, the others are easier to climb over or break down.
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This is a fair point. Things escalate. My contention has more to do with weed as 'the' gateway drug when the reality is there are many from that viewpoint. It's silly to single it out, but if you're going to speak on a broader perspective I'd agree. Alcohol and cigarettes are generally the 'first' drugs people do, because they're legal.
Well, except caffeine. We market that shit to children.
Of course, I know a lot of people who smoke weed and don't do other drugs.. including alcohol. One of them is a lawyer I worked for. You would not believe the people who tried to solicit weed from me as a teenager, including a fellow I won't mention because he's been a staple of a certain local network's evening news.