Your story kind of proves my point... get them to try marijuana so they can see that drugs are harmless and then get them hooked on crack.
Doesn’t change the fact that marijuana is harmless and that it should be treated differently than other drugs so that people can learn the truth rather than scare tactics.
I can't agree that altering brain chemistry is ever "harmless;" I certainly agree that marijuana is no more harmful than a great many goods we'd never consider making illegal - and that scare tactics harm people more than protect them.