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| 9/3/2010 |
Study Disputes "Gateway Effect" Of Marijuana
(Durham, NH) -- Parents may not have to be so concerned about the so-called "gateway effect" of marijuana. A study from the University of New Hampshire finds that whether young adults will use heavier illicit drugs depends more on race, ethnicity, stress and lifestyle factors than on whether they smoked pot as teenagers. Researchers used survey data from more than 12-hundred young adults who went to Florida public schools in the 1990s. They saw that teens who didn't graduate from high school or attend college were more likely to move from marijuana to other illicit substances in early adulthood. Teens who were unemployed during high school and smoked pot were also more likely than other kids to use illicit drugs. However, there was no direct correlation between teen marijuana use and future drug use without those factors. Furthermore, even teens who were vulnerable to the gateway effect of marijuana tended to outgrow it completely by the time they turned 21. The study appears in the "Journal of Health and Social Behavior." |
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