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Why is it that pot is said to be a "Gate-Way" drug?

However, children that are put on medication for A.D.D. are taught at an early age and experience mind altering drugs, such as Ritilan, Aderol; and other such substances. How is it that pot is always the scape goat?

Update:

legal or not, evan though the substances for ADD are usually synthetic; and should be considered illegal. And yet, they become illegal when taken without a prescription or as prescribed. There is that fine line in legality. Tolerance is with anything you consume, ANYTHING. Whether it is food, drugs, or stupidity. (I'm not calling anyone stupid, just generally speaking)

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  • 9 years ago

    There are a lot of reasons. I guess one could say it's a gateway drug because if you can get marijuana and you enjoy it, there's a good chance you could find a dealer to get you something harder. I think cigarettes and alcohol are the gateway drugs. If you can smoke a cigarette, you won't have any trouble smoking a joint.

    Now when you say that synthetic medications shouldn't be legal, you're just being irrational. There are a lot of life saving synthetic medications. People shouldn't have to die of infection or disease just because you think the medications for those conditions aren't "natural."

  • 9 years ago

    No pot is the most tame drug out their, but is the scapegoat because it's still illegal & doesn't bring in money. Pot never led me to crack I would say alcohol & cigarette's are the real gateway drugs.

    Source(s): Personal experience
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    The correlation between pot and different extra difficult center drugs including heroin and cocaine etc isn't as sparkling as you are going to be able to think of. it somewhat is actual that many addicts do commence with pot, yet the two many don't, some bypass rapidly for the extra intense outcomes of the 'A' type drugs. Alcohol must be argued to be the beginning up element of drug habit, although the universal public of people who consume alcohol do no longer bypass directly to attempt the different substance. For those motives i could recommend that for the biggest team pot isn't a gateway drug. you're suited with regard to the guy, some are needless to say extra services to habit that others. maximum people can and in some situations do try something that must be classed as addictive, although, maximum people do no longer grow to be addicts. the universal public of people who consume alcohol do no longer bypass directly to grow to be alcohol based. I take excitement in that the government information could point out that very virtually each drinker interior the united kingdom is technically an alcoholic yet it somewhat is in accordance with intake tiers, and maximum British drinkers exceed those government tiers in simple terms with the aid of getting a handful of beverages a pair of situations a week. maximum people who try cocaine do no longer bypass directly to grow to be addicted, even though it somewhat is extra advantageous use as a social drug among the fewer nicely off might substitute this. besides, the universal public of people can try exceedingly plenty something and not grow to be addicted. people who somewhat relish the outcomes of a drug are extra services to attempt it extra advantageous than as quickly as and as i'm useful you're conscious, it in simple terms takes 2 or 3 is going at countless the ingredients accessible to create a actual habit, it somewhat is the actual habit and the element at which persons will do something to get extra of the substance they're addicted to. manufacturers of drugs are prepared to create ingredients that are extra addictive, yet nevertheless chief among those is heroin, it somewhat is down area is exceedingly horrendous, yet i assume you ought to assert an identical approximately meth amphetamine and different street drugs. unusually the main suitable share of addicts may be got here across among the least nicely off, hence the point of crime in some deprived aspects.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Because one is illegal, and the others aren't.

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  • 9 years ago

    my guess would be that after a while of using Pot you/your body would want something stronger which then would lead to more heavier stuff ....

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Republican propaganda, sheeple will believe anything.

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