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Summarize the "Stepping-Stone" or "Gateway" Theory of Drug Use, Especially

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Summarize the "stepping-stone" or "gateway" theory of drug use, especially the role marijuana plays in it, and summarize the three principal models or schools of thought that attempt to explain this drug progression. Which seems to you to be most empirically adequate?


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Individuality Corollary

A concept suggesting that individuals perceive events and entities in a unique manner based on their personal construct system.

Corollary

A proposition that follows from one already proven, a natural consequence or result.

Poles

In psychology, it can refer to the extremes of a personality dimension or trait, such as introversion/extroversion, where individuals can be positioned along a continuum.

Bandura

An influential psychologist known for his work on social learning theory, later called social cognitive theory.

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