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Title: Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug?
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Desimone, Jeffrey Scott |
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Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? Eastern Economic Journal 24,2 (Spring 1998): 149-163. Also: http://www.jstor.org/pss/40325834 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Child Health; Children, Home Environment; Drug Use; Illegal Activities; Poverty; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Marijuana is by far the most widely-used illicit drug. Though marijuana is a powerful intoxicant with subjective psychedelic-like effects that are more complicated than those of alcohol or cocaine, research has yet to show that marijuana consumption has harmful consequences. In truth, the primary cause for concern about marijuana use may be that it potentially leads to the use of more hazardous illegal drugs such as cocaine. This premise arises from evidence that the overwhelming majority of adolescent and young adult cocaine users have previously used marijuana [O'Donnell and Clayton, 1982; Mills and Noyes, 1984; Yamaguchi and Kandel, 1984; Newcomb and gentler, 1986; Kandel and Yamaguchi, 1993] and is known as the gateway hypotheses. Since the use of cocaine is associated with problems such as crime, child poverty, poor neonatal health, and the spread of HIV, a gateway effect of marijuana on cocaine could signify a sizable social cost of marijuana use. |
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Desimone, Jeffrey Scott. "Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug?" Eastern Economic Journal 24,2 (Spring 1998): 149-163.
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