Pot destroys kids potential as soon as they start using it. Always has and always will. As a society we shouldn’t want to make kids think it is as harmless as we do. I realize the same argument can be made for drinking alcohol and that is also true. The availability, and higher potency of pot these days is decimating a whole generation of kids and that makes me very sad.
From my own observations over the years I would tend to agree with you in a very general sense. The stuff available today is a far cry from prior decades.