[thegreatbeast]

You are correct, sir. The gentleman's experience is anectdotal but if his experience matches up with the experience of everyone else (as it undoubtedly does) than observations become observable fact.
Finding recreational users or abusers of drugs who haven't used marijuana will be just a bit easieer than finding an honest man.

[SunStar]

Finding recreational users or abusers of drugs who haven't used marijuana will be just a bit easieer than finding an honest man.

That is NOT the point. The question is whether the majority of pot smokers use other drugs, not the opposite (which I am sure is true). If the majority of pot users do not use other drugs, then it is not a gateway drug, even if the majority of hard drug users also use pot.

Get it now?

[Smogger]

Finding recreational users or abusers of drugs who haven't used marijuana will be just a bit easieer than finding an honest man.

But considerably easier then finding recreational users of drugs who haven't used liquor or tobacco.

[truenospinzone]

Finding recreational users or abusers of drugs who haven't used marijuana will be just a bit easieer than finding an honest man.

And that's the trick that WODdies use to keep the "gateway drug" myth rolling. Showing that the majority of cocaine users used marijuana first does absolutely nothing to show that marijuana is a gateway drug. The important statistic is the number of marijuana users who go on to harder drugs, and it's a completely different stat. The reason WOD proponents never use THOSE statistics is that the numbers never come out in their favor in independent studies, as this one shows. Much easier to use semantics and misdirection to "prove" a point.