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I have never managed to do that!
ALso!
Will you guys read this response I gave to someone and tell me who was....well...right basically?
Murderous Lemur
And, haha, please, don't think that weed is a "gateway drug". That is a gigantic lie, manufactured by DARE and other propaganda groups. It's such a stupid idea. I've smoked, and a lot of my friends have smoked, and none of us would ever even consider doing hard drugs. Of course, there are always people that do get into stuff like coke and heroin, but that has to do with them, and not what they smoke. I just think that people should know the facts, and not what anti-marijuana propaganda groups tell them.
Leem it's all well and good that you look twice at anything society at large tells you, everyone should. But there are certain things people can't just lie about; as in legal repercussions. (don't get me wrong I know people DO...I watch tv..>.>...).
As an example I have posted below an abstract from a peer reviewed study (which means they didn't just do this and post it to the internet). Although it does make a similar point to the one you had, about attitude affecting whether or not you'd do other drugs, if you continue to read it will also point out that drug use in general leads to use of other drugs, marijuana specifically being a risk factor for cocaine use, as that's what the major focus point is for the study. If you're concerned because you don't see the evidence you'll hafta remember this is only an abstract , I didn't want to bore you guys with the whole thing...plus..I'm not sure how legal it is to just post it online.
"The gateway hypothesis argues that most adolescents begin experimenting with cigarettes or alcohol, progress to marijuana use and finally to other illicit substance use.
Prior research has supported this hypothesis, although prior research has not examined the effects of weekly marijuana use on specific illicit substances such as cocaine and has not attempted to identify psychosocial mediators of predictive relationships among substances. The current study uses longitudinal national survey data with six assessment periods and a comprehensive set of psychosocial risk factors for substance use to examine relationships between cocaine and marijuana use using discrete-time survival analysis for multiwave longitudinal data. The results of the current study show that weekly marijuana use, as opposed to initial marijuana use, is an independent risk factor for initial cocaine use. Weekly marijuana users were over ten times more likely to initiate cocaine within the next year. The results also show that many psychosocial predictors are not predictive of initial cocaine use after controlling for prior weekly marijuana use. However, the association between weekly marijuana use and cocaine use is, in part, mediated by delinquent attitudes. We conclude that weekly marijuana use is a
risk factor for cocaine use that is equal to or greater in magnitude than other risk factors for initial cocaine use such as deviant peer bonding and attitudes toward deviance. These findings argue for some revision of the gateway hypothesis and psychosocial theories of substance use. In addition,
the current research shows support for clinical observations which suggest that regular use of any illicit substance is likely to spawn experimentation with other illicit substances."Miller, T., & Volk, R. (1996). Weekly marijuana use as a risk factor for initial cocaine use: results from a six-wave national survey. Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 5(4), 55-78. Retrieved from CINAHL database.
You might note that it said the "Gateway theory" was being studied? That's because initially someone would have proposed this and studied it to get a positive result, proving it.
Also this was just result number one out of ONE of my schools databases for scholastic journals etc. The results list was way longer and if you'd like to read similar things for yourself by all means try Google scholar (they actually rock
smile article wise.) I searched 'Marijuana Gateway drug."
So please don't try telling me hundreds of thousands of people who have spent LARGE amounts of money performing time consuming and in depth studies are buying into a propaganda line. It's one thing not to fall for one yourself. It's another to believe something and tell someone else they're wrong without knowing the whole story yourself. Just wait till university T.T I've basically written essays with 18 similarly related articles and been told I wasn't right
enough On a lighter note. My room =
SPOTLESS It took me all day. o.0 My dad built me a bookcase...and i just had towers of books around my room. So today I dusted and alphabetized, washed my sheets and duvet, cleaned my floors, put away basically all clothing I own except for the stuff I am currently wearing o.o AND cleaned my school binders and dumped the old work.
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