Is weed a gateway drug at any age? Frequent users are three times more likely to be heavy drinkers and 20 TIMES more likely to use other drugs – no matter when they start smoking marijuana
- Researchers compared people who began regularly using marijuana as teenager and as adults to non-users
- People who began using pot as adolescents were 20.4 times more likely to be illicit drug users and 3.7 times more likely to be a high-risk alcohol drinkers
- They were also 7.2 times more likely to smoke cigarettes daily and 0.4 times less likely to be in a relationship
- Weed users who began as adults were 36.8 times more likely to use illicit drugs, 3.2 times more likely to be heavy drinkers
- These people were 7.3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes daily and 0.3 times less likely to be in a relationship