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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Bull Acad Natl Med. 1994 Jun; 178(6): 1029-37; discussion 1037-42. Related Articles, Links
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Hovnanian L.
Comite National d'Information sur la Drogue, Saint Gratien.
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There is one serious flaw in that research Ramrod and that is that it is based on a retrospective study of those ending up in full dependency on hard drugs rather than tracing the end result for a sample of 5000 starting out by having a few joints at some stage in their life.
Take a group of alcoholics and you would be able to place the blame for their dependence and addiction on alcohol on the very first glass of lemonade shandy or sip of communion wine they indulged in at some point in their past.
With cannabis it is fairer to look at the extremely high proportion of the population that have indulged at some point in their life and just how few of those have ended up moving on to harder drugs.