Sorry, Sgt. Friday, Pot Smoking Might Not Lead to Hard Drugs

marijuana use is the easiest to get and cheapest so it usually is the first drug that teens and ppl try in addition to booze
that is all that is , interview a ton of us who tried marijuana and maybe a few other drugs in college or h.s. and never went on to become herion addicts or serious hard core addicts to anything

if u have no goals or structure or common sense.....and are poorly educated, u will end up on hard drugs by the age of 25 or 30 , no matter what drug u tried first or what order it happened in
these cops on here aren't smart enough to read what i wrote and understand what the truth is about marijuana. I am not someone who supports drug use of any kind, but i also know the truth about pot and what the affects and addictive properties are and tons of doctors , attorneys, college grads and others are drug free and 70% or more tried it in college

cops are idiots who have no clue what the hell about anyone
no one on the planet would take the pay they do and hand out minor traffic fines most days
u can't even read a comment from a cop and consider it as valid

dan u probably talked to too many addicts and ur brain is fried from that and handing out too many bogus traffic tickets made u unable to make heads or tails out of anything

IF YOU DRINK ALCOHOL, YOU CAN DIE FROM ALCOHOL POISONING. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OVERDOSING ON WEED. JUST ASK YOUR DOCTOR. LOOK AT ALL THE TROUBLE YOU GET IN BY DRINKING. ALCOHOL IS LIQUID COURAGE. THINK ABOUT IT....THE LIQUID GIVES YOU THE COURAGE TO DO ANYTHING. PROHIBIT ALCOHOL....AGAIN. IF ALSO, SEE La Guardia Report. FACE IT FOLKS WEED RULES. IT'S CHEAPER TO SMOKE WEED THAN DRINK & OR SMOKE CIGARETTES. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS COMMENT....TOO BAD.

Hey Dan, how many of them drank alcohol long before they tried marijuana?

I'm sure that most, if not all, Major League ball players played Little League.

Therefore, if you play Little League you will be a Major Leaguer.

It’s a fabrication of fact to feel (Mary Jane) is responsible for the “gateway drug” effect.
What should alcohol (or any other legal DRUG) be called if it leads to pot smoking? Hmmmmm...back at ya!
How many accidents have you come across in your 25 years where lives have been destroyed due to alcohol consumption, yet it’s legal because the government gets huge revenue from it.
Those on a soapbox pointing fingers at others desiring to utilize their (LESS DESTRUCTIVE) drug of choice should pay attention. The masses are speaking, the numbers do not lie.
Pot remains illegal (in some states) because the government hasn’t figured out how to get their filthy money grubbing fingers in it enough to effectively regulate it.
Get drunk...Crash your car. Get high on pot...Eat an entire pizza. (BIG DIFFERENCE).
Going after and prosecuting greedy dirtbags that grow and sell massive quantities and kill anyone in their way during the process is one thing, but just as you can’t say all alcohol users are drunks, you can’t say all pot smokers go beyond that to become drug lords or are subject to the gateway effect.
It’s an issue of greed on both sides of the law that needs addressed.
Life’s too short. Live and let those that don’t negatively impact others live as well.
You sound like a good, well-intended person, but Sorry Sgt Friday. (Enjoy your martini).

While you may have never met a hard core drug user who didn't begin their drug using career by smoking marijuana, it doesn't necessarily follow that everyone - or even most - who use marijuana go on to be hard core drug users. I've met many people who lead successful lives as lawyers, teachers, military, etc., who tried marijuana as teenagers but never tried hard core drugs and didn't continue to smoke marijuana as they matured and became leaders in society.

Please don't get me wrong. I commend the work you do and applaud the service you've given to society and I understand why, having seen the things you must have seen, you'd be against marijuana use. I just think there are more things that are completely legal that are more deadly. Like alcohol. I saw a t-shirt once upon which was written, "Man made alcohol. God made grass. Who do you trust?"

Dan,
No disrespect intended, but cut the B/S please, you know as well as we do that pot is not a danger, but if it is made legal, half of the cops around the country will have nothing to do but real police work, and the jails wont fill their daily quota...Thanks for your service, but give me a break, would ya?