Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
FH07,

No, I don't agree either. Tobacco and alcohol are the typical gateway drugs for the vast majority of people.

If you just graduated from high school, you haven't been around for very long. Some of us are 3 times your age, plus or minus, and have seen - and used and abused - a thing or two.

What do you mean by "losing your best friend to weed?" Do you mean that he or she is using it or actually died from it? BTW, last I read on the subject, no one has ever been documented as dying from smoking pot. Not many other drugs you can say that about, including the legal ones.


Please do yourself a favor and research this topic before you jump into a discussion like this again. You'll have a much better time when you're well informed.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.


Salmo,
By gateway drugs I've been referring to those that are illegal. I haven't been including alcohol and tobacco. I do agree, alcohol has a bigger impact and so does tobacco on our society then weed. I do not disagree there....

Second of all, we are misunderstanding each other and I am well informed of the issue. Please don't say "research it more and you'll have a better time." No one needs that. It's the internet... That's a main problem with this site is that people's ego's are way too big and they put people down to try and act superior...


Losing my friend to weed: No he didn't die, but those facts that no one have died from weed are skewed. That's the "pro-pot" side of the road...

One friend (different one then the lost friend) of mine had a heart attack after smoking some weed. And this happened about a day after he smoked. That was a shock to watch him drop on the ground unconscious at a teriyaki restaraunt after complaining of heartburn and then wake back up 10 seconds later. Sure, it was most likely laced with something, but those sorts of incidents aren't included in those facts, nor are people who have been driving after smoking. That's liking taking all the DUI's out of the alcohol-involved death counts.

The lost friend though, no he didn't die, he became the biggest s**thead you could imagine. 3 years ago we were hanging out every day either playing golfing or fishing and enjoying high school, but shortly after that, weed was introduced to him and he went downhill from there. Fast at that... Soon enough, he started hanging out with shady kids and stealing stuff and breaking into houses and what not. Not to mention blowing us off after we tried to hang out with him. Most of the time he blew us off to go make a few bills by dealing weed instead of going through with his prior plans which were us. We would be like "Where are you man we were supposed to chill today???" His response: "Nah man I had to make a deal man I made a couple hundred on this one man you understand me right?" And I can't imagine how many times he pulled the "Im done with weed" card and tried to get back on our good side.....He's also never done anything worse then weed. So you can't say he's a cokehead or methhead...

Not cool in my opinion...

If you have a problem with the government spending so much time and money on trying to get rid of pot, I'd suggest taking political action about it...Complaining about it is one thing, doing something about it is another. I do not know if you have taken any action about trying to change it, so I can't say your only complaining...If you are complaining and acting on it, then that's completely ok, cause your fighing for something.