I don't have any children yet, but I've smoked pot and it isn't that bad for you. I'd just tell them about pot. I'd tell them don't drive afterward, make sure to have plenty of snack food around when they do. Don't drink while smoking pot, because it's just going to make you want more alcohol and then you won't be able to feel the affects of the booze. I'd say that pots fine if you want to use it, as long as it's just every once in a while, and you're not doing hard drugs. Not to do any other hard drugs because I won't put up with that. A child has to make their own mistakes, and i'd rather have my kid smoking pot than injecting heroine or smoking crack. So if the kid likes pot let them smoke pot, just monitor it.

Yeah, but if they try pot...they are guaranteed to be addicted to harder drugs.

Fear,

No disrespect here. But...

I've worked in a rehab. I've been to their NA meetings. I've read their charts and talked with them. The ones that I've seen have all started with pot and/or alcohol.

i smoked pot for a year and a half and never got into anything or even tried anything else till i hurt my shoulder and got put on perscription pain killers, got addicted to them and then went on to harder stuff, so in my book weed is NOT a gateway drug, what is are the pain killers and pills doctors are shoving down our throughts for every little thing, which causes dependancy, and therefor a need once the perscription is done!!!

further than what??

Fear,

No disrespect here. But...

I've worked in a rehab. I've been to their NA meetings. I've read their charts and talked with them. The ones that I've seen have all started with pot and/or alcohol.

o come on...experimentation usually BEGINS with cigarettes.

You're missing the point, the point is that in the same way that pot is considered a gateway drug...cough medicine is the true gateway drug. Gateway drug is just a myth, people don't move to harder drugs unless they want to move to harder drugs there is no magical substance that suddenly snaps someone into doing heroin or coke. Hell I did heroin before I did any other drug, but if you really want to clear cut a gateway drug the real one would have to be cough medicine...cause it is a drug, and everyone starts with it.

So unless people here are willing to say that cough medicine started the addiction into harder substances they need to drop the gateway drug nonsense.

I hear what you are saying about the cough medicine. Children of alcoholics are recommended to use cough medicine with no alcohol in it because addiction runs in families.

I hear what you are saying about the cough medicine. Children of alcoholics are recommended to use cough medicine with no alcohol in it because addiction runs in families.

Yeah, but if they try pot...they are guaranteed to be addicted to harder drugs.

Actually...the active ingredient in cough medicine is dextromethorphan hydrobromide. It's a stimulant and in large doses produces effects similar to LSD. It's in Robitussin and sold over the counter everywhere. Robitussin does not contain alcohol.

Somebody give scorp the "Better Living Through Chemistry" award

WHAT KIND OF F@CKED UP CRACKPOT THINKING IS THAT?

Unfounded claim, never been proven. Pot has never been definitely proven to be a gateway drug. Here, let me explain how it is labeled a gateway drug real quick: Gateway drug-a drug (as alcohol or marijuana) whose use is thought to lead to the use of and dependence on a harder drug (as cocaine or heroin); now we take a drug (the typical first drug a kids has is cough medicine) and we have this drug that we will call A. Now we have A, person ingests A and according to the theory of gateway drug person will move onto B, C, and D respectively.

Here is the trick, definition of drug: 1 aobsolete : a substance used in dyeing or chemical operations b: a substance used as a medication or in the preparation of medication caccording to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1): a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (2): a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease (3): a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body (4): a substance intended for use as a component of a medicine but not a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device
2: a commodity that is not salable or for which there is no demand —used in the phrase drug on the market
3: something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation, or a marked change in consciousness
— drug·gy also drug·gie \ˈdrə-gē\ adjective

Drug is defined as (2): a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease (common cold). Therefore with the gateway drug theory, the true gateway drug would in fact be cough medicine...as I said before, they always start with cough medicine.

If you had read my previous posts in this thread, you would have seen my sarcasm.