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Originally Posted by Ramrod
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I thought the first line was very interesting:
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A study of Australian twins has found teenage marijuana smoking may open doors to harder drug abuse because smokers expose themselves to a drug lifestyle
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The key word is lifestyle I think. I think this has more to do with social issues (such as the person supplying cannabis supplying harder stuff as well). I think the Dutch example shows, that if you separate hard and soft drugs, many people may experiment with cannabis, and take it as a recreational drug without going on to harder drugs. The relatively low levels of Heroine addiction in Holland may not directly prove this, but I would say it disproves the theory that the use of Cannabis inevitable leads to the use of hard drugs. Sure, those who end up on Heroin will most likely have started with a joint, but you need to take the relative numbers into account. Not everybody that drinks ends up an alcoholic either.