Yes this is the truth its not a Gateway drug but you have to buy it where other drugs also are sold, sometimes they might not have weed and you try a pill instead. If we are going the illegal road then ciggarettes coffee and alcohol also gotta go, but come on let people have some fin ffs
I hate dealing with dealers but there is no other way to get weed. Shady dark corners, pushy paranoid characters, just to buy a bit of herb that grows wildly on slopes of himalaya for millenia.
Once dealer tried to push cocaine to me instead of weed pretending he didn't understand, sent him away. That's the only gateway situation I can actually imagine for weed, otherwise its nonsense in same vein as alcohol is.