Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States, with well over 83 million Americans having tried it over the age of twelve. It is enjoyable pastime that alters reality making the user experience a sense of well-being or euphoria and increased talkativeness and laughter alternating with periods of introspective dreaminess followed by lethargy and sleepiness. Several things are thought to be correlated with marijuana use. One main example is that marijuana is a gateway drug to more “hardcore” drugs such as heroine, cocaine, methamphetamines, and ecstasy which is a false thought.
It is hypothesized that marijuana consumers over the age of twelve, will not have the tendency to experiment with other more harmful drugs. Even though their may be more of an association between pot smokers moving on, it cannot be assumed that it is a gateway drug because it could be more accessible; also only 24 percent of people over the age of 21 had the possibility of experimenting shown by the surveys. People who are nonusers showed that they rarely experimented with more impacting drugs. Marijuana smokers input their results and recorded that they went through a generally in a good mood. Those under medically diagnosed usage confirmed that it takes away their pain and actually helped them. Only real possible negative affect was an acute panic attack (rare). They were unable to produce longitudinal results which were assumed to be possible cancers primarily affecting the lungs and respiratory system.
Marijuana does not lead to other hardcore drugs primarily because it does not produce many negative side affects which could ultimately lead to a course in harder drugs. Users went through periods of relaxation with little thoughts of going to look for the next high they could find.
Do you think marijuana is a gateway drug?
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/study-say-marijuana-no-gateway-drug-12116.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory
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Marijuana is not a gateway drug and there are more studies coming out showing that long term use of marijuana is less damaging than cigarettes and alcohol. Granted I am a little biased given the fact that I think marijuana should be legalized but the only negative that can come out of smoking marijuana is the possibility that it is laced with something because there is no regulation on producing it. If we legalized it and our government managed the production and sold it at local coffee shops like they do in Holland it would eliminate the only risk in smoking marijuana.
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