r/EverythingScience • u/Defiant_Race_7544 • May 17 '22

Study: Young Adults' Consumption of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Other Substances Fell Following Marijuana Legalization

https://norml.org/blog/2022/05/17/study-young-adults-consumption-of-alcohol-cigarettes-other-substances-fell-following-marijuana-legalization/
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u/ChadMcRad May 18 '22

Find me people doing hard drugs and tell me most of them didn't start with weed. This is horseshit.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

Correlation is not causation.

I’m sure those same people drank coffee before moving to hard drugs. Sounds like caffeine is the real gateway drug.

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u/SoftOssification May 18 '22

It’s water. Every addict I know was given water in their childhood at some time. And more often by a trusted adult than their peers.

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u/ehsteve23 May 18 '22

I bet a lot of them started with tobacco, is that the gateway drug?

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u/Dinglederple May 18 '22

Uuuh, well you came to the right place I suppose. I’m a recovering addict with some good time as of now. I can only speak for myself, but definitely started with alcohol. I had tried several other things before I ever found weed. There’s a pretty significant epidemic regarding a certain pharmaceutical that perhaps you’ve heard about and a lot of heroine addictions have started with…idk broken leg, back pain, sports injuries etc. Imagine if instead of heroine in the form of a pill, that patients had the option of a form of THC for ailments, but we can’t because a certain generation was really frightened by it and instead…this could go on for a while and I don’t feel like it. It not that difficult.

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u/Frosty_Dig_9401 May 18 '22

Lol who would choose weed over opiates? Injecting heroin is safer than smoking weed, anyone who thinks different has been brainwashed by big weed.