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Alcohol Is More Of A Gateway Drug

A 40-year long study has found alcohol use makes one much more likely to try harder drugs than marijuana would. This is quite contrary to what many of us were led to believe growing up.

If you grew up in America, you likely heard at one point or another that marijuana was a gateway drug. That was the main anti-selling point. Not that marijuana was harmful but that it could lead to more dangerous things. There’s now research to end this rumor once and for all.

Combined efforts from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Brian C. Bennett, the creator of “Truth: the anti-drug war,” found that Alcohol caused “far more personal and social damage than any other drug. Illegal drugs comprise less than 20 percent of substance-use disorders in the U.S.”