{"id":5937,"date":"2016-04-27T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cannitrol.com\/\/why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug-thestranger-com\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:45:20","slug":"why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug-thestranger-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug-thestranger-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are People Still Claiming That Pot Is a Gateway Drug? &#8211; TheStranger.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug-thestranger-com\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"7\" style=\"vertical-align:top;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><font style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNExifKi15k1JhC3TUZNwIieKVQXBQ&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=5DohV7DgLouPhAGClKLoBw&amp;url=http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2016\/04\/27\/24013544\/why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkQK-TER6BeHBAXLOsas0m3elOOlTN_0pnV875xqKLxR5uicSOKOtMy4G2GVBebfusToL_KTyf\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"><br \/><font size=\"-2\">TheStranger.com<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" class=\"j\"><font style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top:0.8em;\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"lh\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNExifKi15k1JhC3TUZNwIieKVQXBQ&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=5DohV7DgLouPhAGClKLoBw&amp;url=http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2016\/04\/27\/24013544\/why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug\"><b>Why Are People Still Claiming That <b>Pot<\/b> Is a Gateway Drug?<\/b><\/a><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b><font color=\"#6f6f6f\">TheStranger.com<\/font><\/b><\/font><br \/><font size=\"-1\">Yes, studies do show that people who use heroin tend to be current or former <b>pot<\/b> users. But no, that does <b>not<\/b> mean that <b>smoking pot<\/b> makes people heroin addicts. In fact, by the NIDA&#39;s own admission, &quot;the majority of people who use <b>marijuana<\/b> do <b>not<\/b> go <b>&#8230;<\/b><\/font><br \/><font size=\"-1\" class=\"p\"><\/font><br \/><font class=\"p\" size=\"-1\"><a class=\"p\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?ncl=d7fMjB3vh2N5tSM&amp;authuser=0&amp;ned=us\"><nobr><b><\/b><\/nobr><\/a><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"7\" style=\"vertical-align:top;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><font style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNExifKi15k1JhC3TUZNwIieKVQXBQ&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=5DohV7DgLouPhAGClKLoBw&amp;url=http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2016\/04\/27\/24013544\/why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkQK-TER6BeHBAXLOsas0m3elOOlTN_0pnV875xqKLxR5uicSOKOtMy4G2GVBebfusToL_KTyf\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"><br \/><font size=\"-2\">TheStranger.com<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" class=\"j\"><font style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top:0.8em;\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"lh\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNExifKi15k1JhC3TUZNwIieKVQXBQ&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=5DohV7DgLouPhAGClKLoBw&amp;url=http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2016\/04\/27\/24013544\/why-are-people-still-claiming-that-pot-is-a-gateway-drug\"><b>Why Are People Still Claiming That <b>Pot<\/b> Is a Gateway Drug?<\/b><\/a><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b><font color=\"#6f6f6f\">TheStranger.com<\/font><\/b><\/font><br \/><font size=\"-1\">Yes, studies do show that people who use heroin tend to be current or former <b>pot<\/b> users. But no, that does <b>not<\/b> mean that <b>smoking pot<\/b> makes people heroin addicts. In fact, by the NIDA&#39;s own admission, &quot;the majority of people who use <b>marijuana<\/b> do <b>not<\/b> go <b>&#8230;<\/b><\/font><br \/><font size=\"-1\" class=\"p\"><\/font><br \/><font class=\"p\" size=\"-1\"><a class=\"p\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?ncl=d7fMjB3vh2N5tSM&amp;authuser=0&amp;ned=us\"><nobr><b><\/b><\/nobr><\/a><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}