Why hate Athiest?

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The thing of it is, when you are talking about drug people, it doesn't even matter what the effects of marijuana are. Drug people just do drugs. They may use marijuana for a few years and that be their drug of choice and then move to alcohol. And later on move on to crack. I have seen a lot of addicts follow some sort of pattern like that. I know a guy named John who got into crack when a dealer sold him crack in his weed.

If you do marijuana, you are starting to build up a lifestyle of drug use. If you get used to being high everyday, it is easy to develop and identity and habit of life in which you see drugs as the center of your life. It is very insidious and powerful and extremely difficult to get out of.

Gateway drug theory

The gateway theory has been the subject of much criticism. Perhaps most common is the claim that gateway theory proponents commit either the post hoc ergo propter hoc or the cum hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacies. In the latter case, it is argued, proponents of the gateway theory invalidly infer a causal relationship between two variables (in this case, the relationship between the use of less harmful soft drugs and the use of more dangerous hard drugs) from a relationship between the two variables that is strictly correlational.[19][22][44][45]

Alternative explanations for the correlation between the use of soft drugs (e.g., marijuana) and the use of hard drugs (e.g., cocaine, heroin) include, but are not limited to:
Some individuals are, for whatever reason, willing to try any substance, and the "gateway" drugs are merely the ones that are (usually) available at an earlier age than the harder drugs.[19]
Particularly for cannabis, which is illegal, exposure to the black market (where harder drugs are available) is suggested to be the real cause.[22][45]
For teenagers, credibility of adults is eroded when the dangers of the "gateway" drugs are exaggerated or made up, leading them to think all anti-drug messages are nonsense.[46]
The peer environments in which "gateway" drugs are used can sometimes overlap with the ones in which harder drugs are used, especially in societies that prohibit the substances or impose very high age limits.[46]
Due to the nature of their merchandise, dealers of the harder illicit drugs may be unwilling to reveal themselves to those unfamiliar with the "gateway" drugs.[citation needed]

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Drugs are dangerous.

Does that include prescription drugs?