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The real gateway is right in font of you. 

6/12/2012

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I asked a week ago -what was your first gateway drug?
For many the response was alcohol.  Many long before the LEGAL age to use. I asked  what was the first drug you used.. Alcohol, Tobacco or Cannabis?  To no surprise the response was alcohol. I admitted the first time I probably drank was at a holiday or family function, champagne  or wine perhaps even s sip of beer.  I remembered  my grandma, dad, mom and several others telling me about  rubbing a crying babies gums with alcohol to sooth it. 
Thus it begins.. 
O.k. say well thats a bit extreme...  then think back to all the family functions where booze has been involved, not just family functions -  we have grown up surrounded by beer and alcohol and never gave it a second thought. My own son I remember seeing him, 2 years old  by his sand box chugging back a Corona that someone had left un-attended  at a family B.B.Q.  
We use it to bring in every new year! Birthdays! Weddings, Thursday nights..   I remember waiting to turn legal drinking age so I could go to a bar and get hammered! WooooHooo.. and we think nothing of it. 
Until you hear - educated people (presumably) saying "Cannabis is a gate way drug". 
COME ON! Please do not continue to insult our intelligence.  
Google Baby and beer - the images flood.  Sad. 
"Oh, it won't do them any harm...  it's just a beer"   it is thinking that has us in denial
dealing with the MOST serious drug a problems.  Alcohol abuse, addiciton and death daily - all around the world. 
My second 'gateway drug" I was 15  (I think) and stole a smoke from my grandma, DuMaurier - thank God I became very dizzy & sick and never smoked again.  I did go to the store and back then and purchase them just a little kid. Remember the ads everywhere? 
I remember my Dr. smoking in his office while examining me.  Now years later to find out the lies about tobacco - IT KILLS. They MADE it addictive. 
They knew what it was doing to you .    $$$
So enough! Quit making excuses and QUIT LYING to yourself and each other.
More importantly look at your kids- what are they seeing? When they come home drunk - who will you blame?  
* The cartoon does say 'at a corner store near you' - THIS is still not a reality in Canada but one the media keeps mentioning- saying how great it will be for the economy! Small business will boom!  So will drunks.  I can  see it to come to pass - too soon. 
It will be a sad day in Canadian History when this happens.

No Cannabis IS NOT the gateway drug. 
What was your first drug? 
xox ♥☮☯

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