Well, the ACTUAL reason it's called a gateway drug is fear mongering.

Yeah, sorry. I'm tired and English isn't my mother tongue.

I smoked pot and now I have a new isekai life with superpowers and a band of roaming catgirl assassins who enforce my will upon an otherwise cruel, dark, and corrupt world in an alternate dimension.

This could happen to you.

Gateway drugs should open more things

Hippies too

"Gateway" is subjective, but sugar is certainly the first substance people encounter that influences cognitive behavior. Consume this thing and feel this way.

Of course that doesn't mean you're going to go and shoot up some heroin, but both are certainly "addictive".

Dependency

Both of those are biologically necessary. So if we’re going that route, oxygen.

You can live just fine without consuming sugar or caffeine.

I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for the sumbitch! I usually just climbed over the fence.

I'm making fun of all the propaganda.

For example: Someone who is against the justice system as it is isn't advocating for murder to be legal.

Don't you dare discompare a cup of coffee to my morning meth

Depends if they're using an intoxicating amount as well. Plenty of folks around on a dose of amphetamines that would have you and me stimming our brains out. For work that doesn't involve dangerous machines or the safety of others, I say, As long as I can't tell you're high on something and it's not effecting your work, whatever makes your day more enjoyable have at.

You don't know my life

I'm sure more than a few people have said "coffee ain't doin' it for me anymore; I should try cocaine or meth," though.

nobody has said it because the same person never sold both

if you had to go to the ecstasy guy to buy your coffee too, then you'd be much more likely to try ecstasy as well

No but people have said if you take ten wake me ups (caffeine pills) it feels like cocaine

So this is what coke is like

These caffeine pills dont do that for me anymore

Maybe I should try coke

Source: my social circle in high school

How about soda?

There is a whole merchandise category about people not being able to function without coffee but I've never seen a mug that says "don't talk to me unless I've bumped a rail"

All the sudden

Ouch. Eggcorn alert

It 100% is a mind-altering drug, a body-altering one too. You can get super fucked up from caffeine, and overdose to a point of death (which you can't with cannabis). Caffeine has little effect on me and many others but it has major effect on a big part of humanity (and other living beings). Some can't drink coffee or energy drinks because it fuckes them up so much, and others get so addicted that they ruin their health from it.

Same. I'm not actually a fan of weed. No ill effects, just not more enjoyable to not consuming it for me, and less enjoyable than the right amount of alcohol (but much more enjoyable than too much alcohol, so balance is key).

A little planning ahead can help with that.

A tip that has helped me a lot with munchies: instead of chips and taco bell, reach for some fruit. Solves munchies and cottonmouth.

I don't get the munchies, so there's that.

More people have died from caffeine overdose then weed overdose.

Sounds like a rectal fact, got a source?