UGS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gateway Drug Theory, John Hickenlooper
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Marijuana has been widespread in the united states for generations. 70 percent of adolescents [used] marijuana at least once (smith, 1984, p. 17). The widespread usage is both well-documented and fairly well-accepted. However, there are other problems associated with cannabis usage outside of the biological properties of the drug. However, this argument is based on many key assumptions, including the fact that the use of marijuana increases people"s willingness to experiment and creates an additive shock . Whether or not this desimone"s findings were accurate, the belief that marijuana was a. Gateway drug drastically affected policy at the federal and university levels. While the federal policy has remained largely unchanged for most schedule i narcotics from 1980 to 2010, marijuana policy evolved drastically over the last ten years, with room to change more (reuter, 2013, p. 75). Peter reuter, a professor at the university of maryland, attributes the stagnancy in most drug policies to popular attitudes, general policy inertia, and.
