Haha. Jesus Christ, stop getting your knickers in a twist. Firstly, I replied before you edited your 'explanation' in. Secondly, my reasons for believing it's a gateway isn't because I believe it's addictive (it's not chemically addictive, only habitually) or because of its negative affects. I believe it's a gateway because of "[i]its current position in society[/i]" (this was in my reply to the OP to which you seem to have forgotten) in the sense that: 1. Weed is a safe entry in to breaking the barrier and stigma of illegal drugs 2. Dealers often have access to harder drugs and these are now easily accessible whereas they weren't previously. Not everyone who smokes weed will go on to harder drugs, yet most who do/did take harder drugs started on weed.