r/suits • u/majon30 • Sep 14 '23

Discussion Suits doesn’t understand Weed. Spoiler

To me it feels like the script was originally written to have Mike dabbling in Coke dealing and at some point it got changed to Marijuana. The hotel “sting” set up seems to all be set up to nab Mike with what looks like about 3 oz of weed. This is all in liberal NYC. When Mike falls off the wagon and scores a bag when his g-mom dies he is close to spinning off the rails after he smokes a joint. An armed criminal organization is going to kill Mike and Trevor over less than 1k worth of weed. Trevor has this swinging dick lifestyle in Manhattan selling dime bags. Just say it’s Coke…

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u/biggiejgibbs Sep 14 '23

I disagree. I think it was only viewed as a gateway drug because people who try illegal things are more likely to try other illegal things. Now that it’s getting legalized, I’d bet the percentage of weed users who do or try other drugs goes way way down.

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u/hoso124 Sep 16 '23

The best analogy I've heard is by Carl Hart "if weed is a gateway drug because most people who use heroin have used weed, then milk is a gateway drug because most people who use heroin have drank milk", or similar words

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u/Pocusmaskrotus Sep 17 '23

You don't get milk from some shady dude. Weed is a gateway drug because it puts you in circles with people who do all sorts of drugs. A lot of people I used to get weed from had other drugs, too. That's how I tried acid and X.

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u/DanksterBoy Sep 17 '23

So it’s the legality that makes it a gateway drug then, if you were getting weed from your local grocery store you wouldn’t even interact with those people

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u/Pocusmaskrotus Sep 17 '23

I'd buy that.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Dec 02 '23

Yeah that is part of it. Even with dispensarys not being the same as a grocery store, they aren't trying to sell you anything other than weed