Leaderboard

I have smoked weed for 20 years or more. I have never once tried X or Estacy, Crystal, Meth, Yabba, Heroin or any other illegal drug. Never. Not once. I have never smoked cigarettes or been drunk. Not once. Ever. But, I love my weed. I have never been tempted to try other things. I do not believe it is a gateway drug anymore than alcohol or xanex is.

Or it could be that kids whose personalities/social circumstances/ genetics/what-have-you incline them toward transgressive &/or risk taking behavior are more likely to both do marijuana and pop pills. It does seem to me that hyperbole in warnings about demon rum and weed may serve to reduce the perceived danger of pill popping once the former have been sampled. I would grant you though that use of a criminalized substance like weed would necessarily teach the skills and behaviors necessary to move on to other drugs (how to find and deal with a source; creating a secret stash; masking the symptoms of use). So, yeah, in that sense, it could well be a gateway drug. Well, no point scratching our heads over this question. We've just embarked on a social experiment on a massive scale that will generate the data necessary to resolve the question. Ten years from now, if we have millions of folks laying around with needles in their arms, there will be all the evidence you could ask for that marijuana. And if no humongous hard drug problem occurs, that should settle the matter too. In the mean time, I hope the FDA stops hindering the scientific investigation into the medical uses of marijuana.

The reason Yugos have heated rear windows is so you can warm your hands while pushing it. Best regards, RA1

We're queens. We practically invented schadenfreude.

Carrying on the theme a bit.....

The study's lead author acknowledges that the clustering observed may or may not be evidence of causation: "It sort of highlights that there's a potential association."

Different strokes for different folks:

Just the thing for those mornings after when you just don't feel like getting out of bed.

"CLASSY" I guess our hito really is into "water sports" ?

Another coffee:men analogy is the old (true ) hot, strong, black and rich!

It's never too late: . . . and with Carl Reiner and Imogene Coca:

Personally, I think this is bull shit. I don't think your words are wrong but I think the entire idea that it is a gateway drug is BS. I don't think it is more of a gateway drug than caffeine or redbull or booze. People who are addicts will take in what they want to get their need fulfilled. I don't think the chemicals in MJ will lead anyone to want to try other things. However, I have been known to be wrong in the past.

Long way from could be to know. What we do know beyond any reasonable doubt is that locking up hundreds of thousands of people for weed use does some pretty significant damage both to the individuals and to society as a whole. So maybe we should hold off on all that until we know that it's worth it. Ours is a culture with a strong puritanical bias. We want/need sinful folks to be punished and be seen to be punished. And sometimes, like with those folks who smoke weed, we get tired of waiting for a just God to visit his wrath upon them and decide to hurry things along a bit.

I really enjoyed this gentleman throughout his career. Best regards, RA1

He may be the hottest boy on earth. Flawless

Caution: Extreme Political Uncorrectness Ahead!