"Gateway Drugs"

Mike Meno sighs:

Last week, researchers at the University of New Hampshire released yet another
discrediting the gateway theory. Their findings, based on survey
from more than 1,200 students in Florida public schools, showed that a
person's likelihood to use harder drugs has more to do with social
environmental factors than whether or not they've ever tried marijuana.

"There seems to be this idea that we can prevent later drug problemsby making sure kids never smoke pot,"...