Most people try weed and most people drop it when they grow up. There will always be people who get hooked on anything: food, speed, relationships, babies, or shopping. We can't keep those people away from everything.
A saying in Narcotics Anonymous: There are no old addicts, only old winos.
I have 2 step kids that started out on grass that gated their way to hard drugs and are now 6 feet under. Most people that start out on marijuana never go to the next step (including yours truly in college) and become addicts; however millions do.
With all due respect, I don't buy it. I am sorry about your step-kids, but unless mass quantities of Doritos and driving really slow leads to sticking a syringe in your arm or smoking crack, I suspect that there were other influences at work.
When the delegates emerged from the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got?” Franklin replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
I'd say that alcohol is the gateway drug. While it's true that it's easier for kids to buy pot than it is alcohol, it's easier for them to get free alcohol than it is to get free pot.
Kids are known for raiding fridges in boats and patios, and of course going in their parents' liquor.
I don't get meth. When I was in high school and college, none of my friends could stand the stuff. Not only did it fry their nerves, and encourage copious consumption of alcohol, it was like snorting fish hooks compared to cocaine.
Stupidity is the gateway drug.
When the delegates emerged from the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got?” Franklin replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
I was always a large pizza with everything type person myself. Marijuana munchies and pizza go together like a horse and carriage... That's what I've always been told anyway.