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Study Finds Alcohol Is The Gateway Drug, Not Marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 08/03/2015 - 23:53

A new study in The Journal of School Health has found that alcohol is more likely to act as a gateway drug to substance abuse than marijuana.

 

The study proves that marijuana consumption is not an indicator as to whether a person is likely to move onto harder drugs or not.

Hot6today.com reports:

“By delaying the onset of alcohol initiation, rates of both licit substance abuse like tobacco and illicit substance use like marijuana and other drugs will be positively affected, and they’ll hopefully go down,” study co-author Adam E. Barry, an assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Department of Health Education & Behavior, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview.

While Barry’s study shows evidence that substance abuse behaviors can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy by examining a subject’s drug history, he believes thatthe persistent and misguided notion of marijuana as the primary gateway to more harmful substances...

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