Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana
		
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
	
	
	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 for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those  addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the  most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.
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 for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those  addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the  most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.
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