The Gateway Drug
“The Gateway Drug”
When I was in middle school taking that D.A.R.E class that they make you take, there was a lot of talk about marijuana being the “gateway drug”. I always thought that it was just a scare tactic that adults used to instill fear in us kids about using drugs. Yet when you actually look at the statistics it is quite amazing how true the saying is that marijuana is a gateway drug. The statistics show that teenagers who use marijuana are 17 times more likely to move on to using harder drugs. Statistics also say that boys are 29 times more likely to use harder drugs after using marijuana and girls are 11 times more likely.
The reasoning behind this is thought to be that marijuana helps one develop curiosity for harder drugs as well as introduces them to the menacing subculture that may be attractive to them.
2 Comments:
i know it may not be classified as a drug at times, but alcohol is the gateway in my opinion. it all begins with that
#1 its legal.. so its an "okay" thing to do. you never hear people getting killed because of driving under the influence of marijuana.. its always alcohol.
it begins with drinking.. if marijuana was legal and alcohol was illegal per say.. would this situation be switched?
they are both dangerous and lead to things that are just as dangerous
from personal experience i can truley say marijuana is a gateway drug, it was mine. it made me more and more curious about what else was out there, and unfortunatly led to much harder drugs. so once again i agree 100%.
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