Study: The 'gateway drug' is alcohol, not marijuana

[farreri]

Oh, how "shocking." :p


Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana
Thursday, July 5, 2012

A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate, but shifts the blame for escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

Using a nationally representative sample from the University of Michigan’s annual Monitoring the Future survey, the study blasts holes in drug war orthodoxy wide enough to drive a truck through, definitively proving that marijuana use is not the primary indicator of whether a person will move on to more dangerous substances.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/05/study-the-gateway-drug-is-alcohol-not-marijuana/


Can we legalize now?!

[jkr]

YEP!

[dannno]

A big part of the problem is that prohibitionistas are not as willing to admit that some substances are much safer than others. So they teach kids that alcohol/cannabis/heroin is all pretty much the same thing.

[AGRP]

The gateway drug is clearly milk.

[tod evans]

Can we legalize now?!

Look for stiffer reefer penalities and reinstatement of the 18th amendment... :mad:

[jbauer]

Wouldn't this argument work against legalizing pot? Now that a legal "drug" is the true problem shouldn't we make it illegal as well??!!??

Yes I like beer, no I don't smoke if it maters.

[Beorn]

The gateway drug is clearly milk.

http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/clockwork-orange-milk1.jpg

[Origanalist]

The gateway drug is clearly milk.

It clearly leads to butter. Even Ice cream.

[jkr]

it REITERATES that they lie.
that they have been LYING.
ALSO, that they WILL LYE in the future

because they are LIARS

such is the lot of the control freak

[tod evans]

It clearly leads to butter. Even Ice cream.

And for the hard-core..........curdled. :eek:

[Origanalist]

And for the hard-core..........curdled. :eek:

Cheeseheads are the hopeless dregs of society.

[kcchiefs6465]

http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-eatdrink004.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
Good to hear.

[evilfunnystuff]

it REITERATES that they lie.
that they have been LYING.
ALSO, that they WILL LYE in the future

because they are LIARS

such is the lot of the control freak


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22-HSjMS3Ks

[AGRP]

http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/clockwork-orange-milk1.jpg

Look at those sinister eyes. Next thing you know he will be craving a cookie and a nap. He'll be wanting coffee to help deal with the sugar crash when he wakes up in the morning and a beer to wind down after work. The humanity of it all.

[sevin]

Can we legalize now?!

NEVER!! You are obviously some kind of crazy drug addict and you have been reported.

[John F Kennedy III]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4-TsaNENo&feature=player_detailpage


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvnfmWsLbsY&feature=player_detailpage