Items tagged with gateway theory
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| Daily cannabis use could delay at-risk youth from moving to higher risk drug use: study [29.03.2018] | Consuming cannabis every day could delay at-risk youth from moving on to injecting more dangerous drugs, according to a new study that casts doubt up ... |
| A comeback for the gateway drug theory? [06.12.2017] | Scientists and politicians still debate whether using “soft” drugs necessarily leads a person down a slippery slope to the harder stuff. Critics note ... |
| Dagga is not a gateway drug [07.08.2017] | The prohibition on dagga is the "gateway to harder drug use‚ not the use of cannabis itself"‚ Imperial College Professor David Nutt told the Pretoria ... |
| As Trump said in the campaign, leave pot to the states [27.02.2017] | In pulling back from Mr. Trump’s assurance during the campaign that states should be left to decide their own marijuana policies, White House spokesm ... |
| How legalizing marijuana might stave off 'Spice' epidemics [04.08.2016] | K2 overdoses in Brooklyn sent 33 people to hospital. The rise of K2 could be fueled by a twist on the "gateway drug" theory: it’s not marijuana use, ... |
| Marijuana legalization might be fix to nation’s opioid problems [27.07.2016] | Proponents of marijuana prohibition have long alleged that experimentation with pot acts as a “gateway” to the use and eventual abuse of other illici ... |
| The real ‘gateway drug’ is 100% legal [06.01.2016] | You may have heard that marijuana is a gateway drug. New research in the Journal of School Health could shed some light on this question. They found ... |
| Once and for all, marijuana is not a gateway drug [13.10.2015] | As the 2016 election approaches, marijuana legalization is in the air once again, with ballot initiatives likely to succeed in at least five states, ... |
| State of the Evidence: Cannabis Use and Regulation [31.07.2015] | As more and more jurisdictions reconsider their cannabis policies, the public discourse is filled with conflicting evidence about the impacts of cann ... |
| Marijuana study counters 'gateway' theory [09.07.2015] | Marijuana may not be the "gateway drug" some believe it to be, a new study contends. Instead, teens smoke pot for very specific reasons, and it is th ... |
| 'Just Say No' to the gateway theory of pot [22.04.2015] | Many young adults remember their childhood participation in Drug Abuse Resistance Education, better known by the acronym D.A.R.E. One of the program' ... |
| Why are politicians still referring to marijuana as a gateway drug? [20.04.2015] | With states legalizing marijuana by popular vote, some politicians, including Boston mayor Marty Walsh and New Jersey governor Chris Christie, are st ... |
| Is marijuana a gateway drug? [25.03.2015] | In the past few years, the number of monthly marijuana users in America has steadily risen, from 14.4m in 2007 to 18.9m in 2012. If marijuana were a ... |
| Summary of report Beckley Foundation [30.10.2013] | The Beckley report, Licensing and Regulation of the Cannabis Market in England and Wales: Towards a Cost-Benefit Analysis, grasps of the economic con ... |
| Five biggest lies from anti-pot propagandist Kevin Sabet [07.08.2013] | Kevin Abraham Sabet-Sharghi, Ph.D., aka Kevin Sabet, has been a headline-grabbing right-winger ever since his U.C. Berkeley days—where he did not stu ... |
| Uruguay poised to legalize marijuana: Is this the right way forward? [01.08.2013] | Uruguay is poised to become the first nation in the world to create a legal, regulated marijuana market. .. but is this the right way forward? Martin ... |
| Colombia’s capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts [07.05.2013] | Marijuana has long been accused of being a gateway to deadlier vices. But could cannabis be a swinging door that might also lead people away from har ... |
| Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
| Study: marijuana a susbstitute for prescription drugs and alcohol [10.12.2012] | Research being conducted by a former Victoria city councillor is poking holes in marijuana’s reputation as a gateway drug. According to an academic p ... |
| Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana [04.07.2012] | 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 fo ... |
| Cannabis as an Adjunct to or Substitute for Opiates in the Treatment of Chronic Pain [31.05.2012] | There is a growing body of evidence to support the use of medical cannabis as an adjunct to or substitute for prescription opiates in the treatment o ... |
| What can we learn from the Dutch cannabis coffeeshop system? [31.10.2011] | In 1976 the Netherlands adopted a formal written policy of non-enforcement for violations involving possession or sale of up to 30 g of cannabis. The ... |
| Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation [18.06.2011] | "The war on drugs has failed," said a recent report compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which comprised a former UN secretary-general, ... |
| What should we do about cannabis? [09.11.2010] | No serious commentator doubts that cannabis is potentially damaging to the user. Like tobacco, it is typically smoked and thus shares the potential f ... |
| Marijuana as a gateway drug [28.10.2010] | Of all the arguments that have been used to demonize marijuana, few have been more powerful than that of the "gateway effect": the notion that while ... |
| The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy [01.05.2004] | Decriminalizing cannabis doesn't lead to more widespread use, according to a study comparing cannabis users in two similar cities with opposing canna ... |
| Crack Heads and Roots Daughters [01.01.2002] | An ethnographic study of women and drug use in inner city neighborhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, revealed that cannabis is commonly used in conjunction ... |
| Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes [31.01.2001] | Cannabis is the cutting-edge drug for reform, the only politically plausible candidate for major legal change, at least decriminalisation (re ... |
| Cannabis use, a stepping stone to other drugs? [31.12.1996] | Does smoking reefer lead to using other drugs, in daily practice usually described as cocaine and heroin? Raising the possibility that the answer to ... |
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