Weed isn't any more of a gateway than cigarettes and alcohol. Having said that, cigarettes and alcohol are gateway drugs and so is weed.
There's an expression that knowledge is, 'knowing the ledge'. The ledge is smoking crack and injecting heroin
I've tried everything out there, ghb, mushrooms, LSD, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, crystal meth and of course alcohol.
I feel like weed and alcohol are the softer drugs that you can do every day.
Cocaine, heroin, mushrooms, etc are the drugs that you do once a month or a couple of times per year.
And here's another jewel; Everybody's talking about the opioid epidemic but it's a farce.
You can sniff heroin for recreation but if you do it two or three days in a row you'll suffer from withdrawal. The cure for withdrawal is ibuprofen. All you have to do is crush up some Advil (or generic ibuprofen works just as well) and sniff it. Sniffing ibuprofen makes heroin withdrawal go away. And a bottle of Advil only costs about $8 for a bottle of 100.
It's that simple. just crush up some Advil and sniff it and the opioid withdrawal goes away. Sniffing Advil won't get you high like opioids do, but it makes the withdrawal go away. Once you've mastered that you can sniff cocaine and heroin on weekends and drink alcohol and smoke weed during the week.