[crazytaxidriver]

Okay, let's put it like this then. A first time user is much more likely to smoke a little bit of pot than to shoot up heroin or drop a hit of LSD. Hence the gateway drug effect, it's just logical to assume the wade in approach rather than the over your head approach. :biggrin:

With hard drugs I can really see the argument here. And I'm really not trying to "debate" anything, I'm just bringing up things I've seen. So by saying that the problem now isn't so much what is the gateway to heavy drugs. As far as the "wade in" approach, that doesn't work much either. Now people who have never touched anything get a prescription for hydrocodone, or oxycodone anytime they have to have a surgery, thus bypassing any need for weed or cigarettes. That stuff is easily abused and does in fact lead to heavier stuff.