I agree with most of what I just read here. I grew up hearing about how Marijuana was "The Gateway Drug"
Maybe for some. But not me. Nasty shit that dope is. Stinks and I do not inhale with out choking half to death. Had many a contact high from just being in the room/car tho. So I been high many times. While many of my friends as teenagers were burning the weeds and laughing at things that just were not that funny I was discovering new and tasty ways to consume alcohol. Boones Farm apple wine. Wine coolers, hard cider. Good old Jack Black and the sweet bibble gum flavor of southern comfort. Captain Morgan will agree I am sure of it. Yep alcohol was my gateway drug.
I can honestly say I never dropped a hit of acid, snorted a line of coke, without first being intoxicated on good old legally store boughten alcohol."Legally" being a grey area. The age thing was a minor inconvenience we overcame with fake i. d.'s and good old father time.
Now I still like me some cold beers now and then. They are few and far between and most commonly will be used to wash down some chicken wings.
The first 29 years were spent crossing that "gateway" and the 2nd 29 have been avoiding it. 😉