Bretteville-Jensen, Anne; Melberg, Hans; Jones, Andrew - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (2008) 2, pp. 1846-1846
The gateway, or stepping stone, hypothesis is important as it has had considerable influence on drug policy and legislation in many countries. The gateway hypothesis offers one possible explanation for young people's development of serious drug problems. It simply states that the use of one drug...