Assertion: marijuana | /r/HasProperty | a gateway drug
Facets:
value: to other drugs
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: commonly
type: TEMPORAL
value: for many drug users
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: really
type: DEGREE
value: to other drug use
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug?
text: As more states make some level of marijuana possession and use legal, the question still remains, “Is marijuana a gateway to other drug use?
text: Marijuana May Really Be Gateway Drug.
text: Alcohol, marijuana and nicotine are commonly talked about as gateway drugs.
text: Cannabis is considered a gateway drug, i.e., it is believed to induce the intake of potent and dangerous drugs such as cocaine, LSD, and heroin.
text: Is marijuana a gateway drug?
text: Is marijuana a gateway drug?
text: The anti-drug lobbyists who insist that marijuana is a gateway drug refer to the results of a 2012 Yale research study that demonstrated that in both men and women 18 to 25, the use of marijuana was linked with an increased chance of future prescription drug abuse.
text: Many people who try marijuana or use it for a time will not move on to other, harder drugs, but the evidence that marijuana is a gateway drug for many drug users is clear.
text: In a very real way, your answer depends on your response to the question this article poses: Is marijuana a gateway drug?
text: One common myth is that marijuana is a gateway drug that almost always leads to the use of "harder" drugs.
text: Is marijuana a gateway drug?
text: Rats exposed to THC before birth, soon after birth, or during adolescence show notable problems with specific learning and memory tasks later in life.32–34 Cognitive impairments in adult rats exposed to THC during adolescence are associated with structural and functional changes in the hippocampus.35–37 Studies in rats also show that adolescent exposure to THC is associated with an altered reward system, increasing the likelihood that an animal will self-administer other drugs (e.g., heroin) when given an opportunity (see "Is marijuana a gateway drug?").
text: Fact: The myth that marijuana is a gateway drug, is based on a fragile assumption and statistical association between the usage of common and uncommon drugs.
text: However, decisions about relaxing U.S. marijuana laws must necessarily take into account many other factors in addition to whether or not marijuana is a gateway drug.
text: The new DPRC research thus demonstrates that the phenomena supporting claims that marijuana is a gateway drug also support the alternative explanation: that it is not marijuana use but individuals' opportunities and unique propensities to use drugs that determine their risk of initiating hard drugs.
text: Marijuana is a gateway drug.
text: Marijuana is addictive and is a gateway to other drugs:
text: In 2020, the National Institute on Drug Abuse released a study backing allegations that marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs, though not for the majority of marijuana users.