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Translation of gateway drug in Spanish:

gateway drug

droga de inicio, n.

noun

Medicine Sociology

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    (del consumo de otras más fuertes) droga de inicio feminine
    • It's still a gateway drug for meth or cocaine; I wouldn't want my kids out there recreationally smoking marijuana.
    • The Mexican authorities were shocked at the liberalisation of the drug in Britain, he said, as marijuana was a gateway drug to cocaine.
    • Instead, the legal status of marijuana makes it a gateway drug.
    • There was also no evidence in either city to back the common refrain that marijuana serves as a gateway drug.
    • As to the gateway drug claims, heroin addicts have the type of personality that makes them heroin addicts.
    • Cigarettes are a gateway drug; most narcotics addicts start on cigarettes.
    • He added: ‘I don't believe that cannabis is a gateway drug that will inevitably lead users on to experimentation with other harder drugs’.
    • Many young people in the town are regarded as casual users of these recreational drugs, which are often seen as the gateway drug to substances such as cocaine and heroin.
    • Does this mean that alcohol is a gateway drug for marijuana?
    • At least the movie does a formidable service by proving once and for all that neither marijuana nor LSD is the true gateway drug.
    • The life list is the beginning of the mania, but much like a gateway drug, it can lead to more extreme enumerating activity.
    • While it might not be a gateway drug, I like to think of it as a ‘buffer drug’.
    • He scorns claims that cannabis is a gateway drug: ‘It's the individual's personality that leads to other drugs.’
    • There's clear evidence that cannabis is itself a gateway drug to harder and more damaging drugs, and that cannabis itself has a devastating impact on our poorer communities.
    • Demonised as a gateway drug, hailed as a medical wonder drug, cannabis is never far from controversy and the debate to legalise it has never been more acute.
    • It's de rigueur in high school health classes (or at least it was when I was in high school) for marijuana to be presented as the gateway drug.
    • Furthermore, those who used all three of these gateway drugs were much more likely to use cocaine than those who used only one gateway drug.
    • ‘I consider our single malt a gateway drug for the whiskey industry,’ he says.
    • Twenty-nine point one percent of ecstasy users also abuse one or more other illegal substances, indicating it is likely to be a gateway drug.
    • We thought that comics were like a gateway drug into reading.