Are we really doing a whip and measure session on the effects of weed and it's status as a 'gateway drug'?
When I smoke, I don't get high, I get low; I am in no mood to game and I just wanna chill, mow some food and watch a flick, nothing wrong with that...I won't burn one before I hit the club like some of my friends, I'll burn one after the club, I get too far into my own cabeza when I'm high; its fun when there is no work to be done, girls to chop or things to do, but otherwise it just makes things harder than they need to be.
I have met two people, one guy, one girl, who I have smoked with more than once, and none of this schwag ditch weed either; I'm talking light green fluffy and crystally with the yellow and red hairs; I wanted to eat all the food in the world, they were the same as they always were, no effect. Not everyone who smokes weed gets high, maybe it's genetic, maybe it's exposure, I don't know, I'm not a scientist. I used to be a chronic blaze, like seven times a day, and now I'll cook one once or twice a month with friends or a girl, I have no desire to go out there and find it in the meantime.
As for the 'Gateway Drug' argument...yes and no. Sure it can open your mind into trying other things, but at the same time what you get in to is totally dependent on the crowds you run in; you could smoke weed every day and be oblivious to all other drugs and have no desire to try it, but then some cute chick wants you to pop some E's and fuck her all night and well...you're going to do it. I know people that have smoked and done nothing but smoke for 30 years and tried no other drugs, and I know people that got into other stuff in addition to weed because of the crew they run with, the only constant variable.