You've got your anecdotes, I've got mine. Weed is just not something I'd like to see youngsters gravitating to, especially as they rationalize the practice when they "see people at the highest levels can appreciate cannabis..."
Kids are highly impressionable and we're losing them.
I’ve also seen plenty of people destroyed by drug abuse.
Youngsters (and adults) would not gravitate toward abusing anything if it felt better for them to live mostly sober in our society and they had the proper support through difficult times. NEVER encountered anyone that fell into true addiction without issues or illness where they felt completely abandoned by society.
More and more people live in a reality where family, friends, employers, doctors and authority figures are only there to rip them off for their own money/pleasure until there is nothing left to take and they are thrown into the gutter.
Drugs are NOTHING compared to the feeling of living in a healthy, supportive society and addiction could be nearly eliminated if we all lived under a healthier philosophy than everyone for themselves...