I don't think it is necessarily just, well, you sell this AND that, so I will try them both. If you notice, a lot of people that do drugs, and mroe specifically, abuse drugs, tend to have addictive personalities. Someone prone to trying cocaine isn't only going to try it because they smoked pot, they were going to try it because that is their personality. For a whole bunch of people I know, pot was just fine for them. Stopped right there. For others, they started smoking cigarettes at a younger age than most, started drinking at a younger age than most. Then pot. mushrooms, acid, coke, etc. It was not well, I smoked pot, now I am going to start doing PCP. If the gateway excuse is to be made, then let's say that cigarettes are a gateway drug, as I have never known a friend or otherwise who smoked pot who didn't also smoke cigarettes. Or smoked cigarettes first, adn then quit, but continued to smoke pot. I do not know any friends who never drank before smoking pot. Gateway drug. fuck that shit.