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Originally Posted by little_tippler
One of my main reservations is that in teens, marijuana seems like a good way to come into contact with other, harder drugs. This doesn't mean that because they smoke pot, they will take other drugs. But it does increase the risk somewhat.
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The gateway drug stuff only happens because the people selling the drugs are
drug dealers who sell things like cocaine etc. If people aren't forced to go to a drug dealing looking to push something more hardcore and addictive, then they are less likely to move on to the hardcore drugs.