Sentences with phrase «as a gateway drug»

He talked about educating people about the dangers of the drug, decried marijuana as a gateway drug, and called for a «one - penny fee on every milligram of opiates that are produced and sold in America» to be collected for treatment.

From the mother of a drug addict who self identified marijuana as his gateway drug, any effort to keep this drug out of the hands of individuals is welcome.

I am using this as a gateway drug to bone broth.

Louisville fans are falling in love with this Utah Jazz team while using Donovan Mitchell as a gateway drug.

So marijuana will stop acting as a gateway drug to heavier stuff.

According to the researchers, further investigation is needed to determine if synthetic marijuana serves as a gateway drug to natural marijuana and other illicit drugs.

After a four year break from both in 2003, a friend took me to Bikram (which I now refer to as the gateway drug to yoga), and I went to Burning Man for the first time.

I am using this as a gateway drug to bone broth.

Though the voucher fight had been lost, charter schools, which receive government funding but operate independently of the public - school system (and are seen by conservative policy groups as a gateway drug to privatization) sprang up across the state.

With body - on - frame construction and a fairly agricultural 1.3 - liter overhead valve engine, the MG was far from modern or refined in post-war America, but it gave thousands of people their first taste of what a sports car should feel like and served as a gateway drug to both racing and more expensive, more powerful sports cars.

They use price matching to make their first product free to serve as a gateway drug to the rest of the series.

But Ikaruga's genius lies in the way it serves as a gateway drug of sorts, teaching shoot -»em - up dabblers how to swoop and swoosh across the screen like a score - chasing fiend.

These add - ons are what could be described as gateway drugs leading into the deeper addiction that is Popcap's library.

Squaresoft made Mystic Quest from the ground up as a gateway drug, a simplified version of the trademark fantasy adventure story and character raising mix that made the genre so rich in the «80s.

Because Fire Emblem Heroes does exactly what it's supposed to: act as a gateway drug to the franchise as a whole.

I hope it works on folks as a gateway drug to more space games.

You could look at these temporary tattoos as the gateway drug of permanent skin art — one very convincing way to try some art on for size and see how it feels.

That being said, I do believe that Messenger Kids, for all its security benefits, will be used as a gateway drug to entice the next generation of Facebook users.

Sonos's other speakers, the Play: 3 and the Play: 5, are well regarded, and the Playbar could well act as a gateway drug to slowly building a complete wireless multi-room audio system - and if you did, you'd be happy.

Even if Facebook did say that it won't profile children and won't serve any ads inside Messenger Kids, the app is still regarded by some as a gateway drug for future Facebook and Messenger experiences the children may be exposed to once they become teenagers and upgrade their Facebook apps.

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The pots look like Staub Mini Round 3 / 4 - Quart Cocottes, which frequently go on sale as a «gateway drug» to collecting Staub cookware.

Worse yet is the gateway effect: Kids who develop a taste for chocolate milk tend to lose interest in the plain stuff, progressing to harder drugs such as Yoo - hoo, Pepsi and Red Bull.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has expressed concerns about recreational marijuana as a «gateway drug,» although in recent months, as New Yorkers have signaled their growing support for legalization, he has suggested he is willing to consider the issue.

One administration source involved with planning the ban said that some of the mayor's advisers view sugary drinks as the «pot» of food because they're a «gateway» to poor eating habits, referring to the belief that marijuana use leads to harder drugs.

Cuomo referred to marijuana as a «gateway drug» less than a year ago and, at the time, announced continued opposition to recreational marijuana.

«You're talking about a system that will grow, sell, distribute marijuana,» he said, «and this raises a lot of questions, makes law enforcement very nervous» because of marijuana's status in some circles as a «gateway drug.»

Debates about drugs have often lumped «soft drugs» such as cannabis together with «hard drugs» like heroin and cocaine, if not by ascribing the same physiological and social effects to each, then by regarding the soft drugs as a «gateway» to hard drug use.

in email that while she has voted «to decriminalize the possession and use of marijuana as well as the sale and use of medicinal marijuana,» she does not support legalization, citing «serious concerns about marijuana being a gateway drug» and its potential impact on the adolescent brain.

«The flip - side argument as you know is it's a gateway drug, and marijuana leads to other drugs and there's a lot of proof that that's true.»

Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, who has endorsed Mayor Sheehan, told The Alt in email that while she has voted «to decriminalize the possession and use of marijuana as well as the sale and use of medicinal marijuana,» she does not support legalization, citing «serious concerns about marijuana being a gateway drug» and its potential impact on the adolescent brain.

And yet Cuomo hasn't once acknowledged increased left - wing pressure is responsible for these abrupt turns, despite years of tolerating the IDC, calling marijuana a gateway drug just a year ago, and his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, dismissing activist pressure for environmental laws as «a counterproductive fraud.»

As recently as February 2017, Cuomo called marijuana a «gateway drug» that leads to abuse of harder drugAs recently as February 2017, Cuomo called marijuana a «gateway drug» that leads to abuse of harder drugas February 2017, Cuomo called marijuana a «gateway drug» that leads to abuse of harder drugs.

Critics contend that lower taxation encourages people to maintain their nicotine addictions, and to start using the drug in the first place, perhaps as a gateway to tobacco.

Although results such as these are consistent with the gateway hypothesis, they do not prove that using marijuana causes the use of other drugs.

Some experts say the nicotine content could lead users to become addicted to e-cigs, or that it could even serve as a gateway to conventional cigarettes and other drugs.

«We hope with future research to determine if e-cigarette use may serve as a gateway to other drugs just as traditional tobacco cigarettes have been identified and if the user experiences higher euphoric effects.»

«To describe electronic cigarette use as «a new drug use option» and part of «at - risk teenagers» substance using repertoires» is unnecessarily alarmist, given the evidence that regular use among never smokers is negligible, the lack of evidence that electronic cigarette use acts as a gateway to tobacco use, and the likely low level of harm associated with electronic cigarette use.»

There is alcohol use, and drugs are portrayed as a gateway to further your own enlightenment, as shown in the film «Limitless.»

The first «Deadpool,» based on a Marvel character introduced in the early 1990s (his real name is Wade Wilson), presented itself as an antidote to superhero fatigue, but it was really just another gateway drug.

Of course, we all know that The Muppets was a passion project for Stoller's writing partner / star of the film Jason Segel, but Stoller himself has a passion for the felty friends, who he refers to as, «The gateway drug of comedy.»

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson» played like a calmer, quarter - sized 2006 predecessor to TV's «Breaking Bad» — a drama using drug addiction and drug trade as gateways into a larger, messier tale of crumbling composure, confidence and values.

My dissertation project explores how Brazilian education policy - makers and corporate actors have framed youth free time as a «gateway drug,» and how keeping youth busy through various interventions — vocational training, after - school arts and sports, test prep and professionalizing programming — has become a widespread form of risk prevention and subject formation.

charter schools are just a gateway drug for vochers, because of privitization, as kay elegantly and empirically pointed out on your last crappy post on this subject.

As Audi's gateway drug, it uses just enough premium materials and rides with an agreeable level of comfort to make mainstream buyers feel like they've moved definitively into the premium segment.

I've been an advocate for «literary graphic novels» for adults since the 80s but I also know we need more gateway drugs like The Phoenix to get kids hooked on comics as an art form.

The following novels, many of them focused on intimate relationships, domestic life or the mild but constant paranoia of seeing oneself as prey, were my gateway drugs.

That's how it maintains the low, low prices customers love, while driving booksellers out of business and framing publishers as greedy villains — even though books are the * only * product we sell, whereas books are just the gateway drug Amazon uses to lure customers through the door.

My gateway drug, if you will, into the world of Japanese animation was the quintessential magical girl show: Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon, known simply to American audiences as Sailor Moon.

I feel this would be a great starter RPG for a child or non-gamer because it would be a wonderful gateway drug to games such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Disgaea, and all the other titles we've come to know and love.