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Their fear isn’t the one threatening their employment and social relations. Their drug addition is. </p>
<p>I do not view “gateway drugs” from a “correlation/causation” aspect. I consider a gateway drug to be a drug that increases the likelihood of the user moving on to a more dangerous drug of choice. If pot does that, I would consider it to be a gateway drug. If it doesn’t, I would not consider it to be a gateway drug. </p>