Did you read about the marijuana gateway drug study involving twins recently? If so, get the whole background on the study here.
In brief, the news agencies (government media propagandists) reported that the Australian study was clear evidence that marijuana was a gateway drug. They said the study showed how if one twin used marijuana before the age of 17 and the other didn't, then that twin was more likely to use harder drugs later on in life.
The unreported facts however shed some light on this completely wrong interpretation, as highlighed by the study's authors.
1. They never mentioned the fact that the twin's use of alcohol and tobacco ("legal" drugs") were also predictors of hard drug use.
2. Any twin that had used harder drugs before cannabis was dropped from the analysis.
Screwed, I mean Skewed, by the media again.
Posted by answerguru at February 13, 2003 09:04 AM