Smoking pot leads to the use of “harder” addictive drugs, false?

i need to prove this statement wrong but i don't have any clue, help? i would think it would lead to harder addictive drug, but i want to prove that it doesn't , how? source?


thanks a lotSmoking pot leads to the use of “harder” addictive drugs, false?
This is one of the most widely believed myths, and is still used today. But is this statement true? Prohibitionists argue that even if marijuana itself doesn't do much damage, it should be considered dangerous because it leads to harder drugs such as cocaine. This statement is untrue. Take a look at the facts:





In 1994, less than 16% of high school seniors who had ever tried marijuana had ever tried cocaine.





While it is true that most users of heroin, LSD and cocaine have used marijuana, it is also true that most marijuana users never use other illegal drugs.





Marijuana tends to substitute for the much more dangerous hard drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin. People smoke marijuana instead of snorting cocaine or dropping acid.





As marijuana use increased in the 1960s and 1970s, heroin use declined. This proves that marijuana is not a gateway drug, because if it was, then heroin use would have increased when marijuana use increased.





In Holland, marijuana is legal. This means that you don't have to pay a visit to the local drug dealer in order to buy a few grams of marijuana. Marijuana can be bought in coffee shops, which separates marijuana from harder drugs. Whereas approximately 16% of youthful marijuana users in the U.S. have tried cocaine, the comparable figure for Dutch youth is 1.8 percent. This proves that by separating marijuana users from illegal markets, less harder drugs will be used.





You can claim that anything has a gateway effect. Most hard drug users ate chocolate before they tried hard drugs, therefore chocolate is a gateway to hard drugs. This is obviously incorrect. A lot of people think that if the gateway theory is going to be used, then marijuana should not be the gateway. Other drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, etc. should be considered gateway drugs because hard drug users are more likely to try those before they try marijuana.





There are 40 million people in the United States who have smoked marijuana before. The number of hard drug users combined is way less than that.





Another sort of gateway theory has been argued is that marijuana is the source of the drug subculture and leads to other drugs through that culture. This is untrue. Marijuana doesn't create the drug subculture, the drug subculture uses


marijuana. There are many marijuana users who are not a part of the subculture.





Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States today. Therefore, people who have used harder drugs which are less popular are likely to have also tried marijuana.





After reviewing the facts, I would consider you ignorant if you still think that marijuana is a gateway drug. There has never been any evidence to prove that marijuana use leads to the use of harder drugs. If any drug should be blamed, it should be alcohol or cigarettes, not marijuana.Smoking pot leads to the use of “harder” addictive drugs, false?
I don't think that any studies can prove it one way or another, I truly think it is based on the individual and their predisposition to addictive behavior and access. My sister started out using Pot and graduated to other stuff. My ex husband smoked pot and never went further and gave it all up. I tried pot a few times and was not impressed. I know people who use pot only and never dream of going any further, and I know others who have been there and back and still use pot but nothing else.


So bottom line I think it is so individual and that more often than not it is all about addictive tendencies which may or may not be genetic.
Definitely false. It's an herb from the earth as opposed to mixed chemicals and such. Your body doesn't get to the point where you have withdrawals if you cut off weed. People who move on to harder drugs(heroine, methamphetamines, cocaine, etc.) were bound to try the harder drugs anyways. Has nothing to do with the ganja they smoked.
False. The physical addiction when smoking pot makes your crave pot. But the mental consequences of pot can make you desire a more risky and more powerful drug. Pot is a downer and you might want something to bring you back up again and seek that ';1st high';. Your best bet is too just drop all of it together and think about what you are doing to your body to start with.
This has been proven to be extremely false... I have smoked marijuana for years off an on not everyday, and I am disgusted by the use of harder drugs.. Alcohol is way worse for you then marijuana.
the evidence would be to look at all those people that smoked pot all their lives and see how they are doing now, EG Mike Jagger, Paul M Cartney etc etc you'll be able to find tons of them if you look hard enough.
The poster before me offered no statistical evidence.