Begging to differ, marijuana IS a gateway drug.....The passage to Stoneyville is just beyond the garden's entrance.

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Landing @ Lukla airport, Nepal: the gateway to Mount Everest has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims.

Enoch, you are right everyone has the right to their opinion. But, what is pseudoscience? That phrase in the same category as this is a slight.A negative dashing of one of the most visionary and powerful experiences a human could have. Just the fact that TEDX is not encouraging this issue after having posted this up is fact enough that whatever it is and no one knows, not even people who have actually done it, should be enough for people to unfurl their brow and know that there IS something to this. This is not a popularity contest, I know for some reason this culture has supported cynicism, it dislikes spirituality beyond our favored religions, many people do not want to know that there is for some reason a gateway into something unspeakable right under our feet. They do not want to believe. Rightfully so. I think it is terrifying as well but I also have always wanted the truth and science is doing a great job but it moves too slooooowly.

In my opinion it is not a drug. It is a state. A natural state that humankind has long forgotten through indoctrination, power and control. The doubter will receive enlightenment.

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No Alcohol is the gateway drug..

I can see him saying no the the gay thing but pot? Come on man its natural.


I'm not surprised in the least that he's against pot ... in my view, there doesn't appear to be much "natural" about the man

No Alcohol is the gateway drug..

I can see him saying no the the gay thing but pot? Come on man its natural.

Server - client in a http context is pretty divided between "me" (client) and the rest (server), which is why things like Bad Gateway (502) is also in the 500 region. 500 is when the error happens "over there", while 400 is when the error is mine. Like with 404, the client provided a bad path, so the server successfully returns a "does not exist" message. The error is thus in the 400 region.


In that sense, you could argue that censorship is 400 because you're accessing something you're not supposed to.

>> ^dag:

OK, we'll look into it. Just for assistance, if you could copy and paste the page load time that is recorded in the footer, that would be helpful. eg.
page generated on web1 in 0.4894 seconds


For me, it never times out or just gives me that "504 Gateway Time-out. nginx" error. So far, I haven't seen any new ones since I last posted and visited in VS.

Root beer is a gateway drink.

>> ^surfingyt:

This video of Robert Mueller getting slammed on the gateway theory always amused me... http://videosift.com/video/FBI-director-gets-schooled-on-mariju
ana-legalization


I loved milk as a gateway theory here =oD

This video of Robert Mueller getting slammed on the gateway theory always amused me... http://videosift.com/video/FBI-director-gets-schooled-on-marijuana-legalization

I've never had pot, or any other illegal drug for that matter. I have never smoked or chewed tobacco, and I actually didn't drink alcohol until I turned 21, and only very rarely since then.

I don't really have any interest in it. I *hate* cigarette smoke, so the primary method of consumption (smoking) is repellant to me. With regards to alcohol, a light buzz is a somewhat good sensation for me but I strongly dislike the feeling of being drunk. I don't mean being hung over, I mean that when I am drunk I can tell that my brain isn't operating at peak efficiency and it just bothers me. That minor positive feeling I get with having 1-2 drinks honestly doesn't justify the cost of alcohol vs other beverages, and that is before the risk of drinking too much and the discomfort of being drunk.

I don't mean to push any of that on anyone -- I know and am friends with a lot of people who like getting drunk, quite a few that like to smoke, and some that smoke pot. I just mention it to present my perspective.

The thing that bothers me about most discussion about pot is that you only hear from the two opposite extremes. You've got your narc ATF-types that tell you that pot is highly addictive, it takes otherwise productive people and makes they lazy and apathetic, it is a surefire gateway to stronger drugs, it ruins lives, etc. etc. Then you've got the High Times-types that tell you that it cures every affliction known to mankind, it has no negative effects whatsoever, and that we might as well grind it up and put it in the water supply or something.

Having had no direct personal experience with it, my best guess is that pot impairs your judgement and mental faculties to a degree roughly equivalent to alcohol, possibly less so. Smoking it probably has negative health consequences roughly similar to smoking tobacco, but probably a little bit less bad -- for one thing, there are probably many more people who smoke a pack or two of cigarettes per day than people who smoke an equivalent number of joints. Less inhaled smoke probably means less detriment to health. In terms of addictiveness, it appears to me that pot is far less addictive than either alcohol OR tobacco.

Combine all that stuff together, and I don't understand why alcohol and tobacco are legal while pot isn't. Prohibition was a disaster, and the war on drugs (particularly pot) seems to be a failure to learn from that. That being said, if a high school student brings alcohol or tobacco to school and gets caught with them, they will probably be confiscated and given some punishment. Contrary to what Rogan says, I have heard of undercover/sting operations to bust underage drinking, particularly in order to punish adults to distribute alcohol to minors. All that is fine with me, probably a good thing.

In this clip, I didn't think that Dr. Drew's statements were all that extreme towards the ATF extreme side -- at least, not really any more than Rogan's were towards the High Times side. Still, upvote for presenting his viewpoint honestly and directly. I think that we need more discussion about this, with the likely result being that we get some real information that lands somewhere in the middle.

The U.S. government has failed to keep drugs out of prisons. What makes anybody think we can keep drugs out of schools?
Also, aren't bath salts the gateway drug to tobacco?

Face punching for itunes credits, the gateway to back-alley blowjobs for twenties.