Hey not everyone does go into harder drugs who smoke a little pot...but I work in an ICU where I see the aggregate numbers of those who did go into harder drugs. I hear the same stories over and over. Generally it is always a variant of “ I started doing a little weed with my buds...it felt great to relax, but soon I started trying other drugs...and so on and so on!.
Now I’m willing to be flexible. Some ‘legacy’ weed, grown from plants untouched by the designer hybridists probably won’t harm some one who does the end of the week Saturday night hang-out/unwind toke! The new designer stuff is dangerous, and the stuff being concentrated and made from such weed is totally harmful!
Are you a doctor or a nurse? I’m not being sarcastic, just curious.
I know someone who smoked that synthetic ‘weed’ they used to sell at convenience stores. He was messing around with a mutual friend’s loaded gun and shot a hole into the wall, taking the TV out with it. I wasn’t there, thankfully.
A lot of people labor under the false impression that if drugs were legalized there would be no pushers trying to hook people.
Of course there will be, and they will use the latest and most effective stuff to accomplish it.
Why do you keep referencing "legacy weed"? It's silly.
If pot is really "500 times stronger" then the end user simply needs to ingest 1/500th of the normal amount. It's not rocket science, and the human body cannot overdose on it.
Normally what happens is after a few minutes of ingesting it, we lose interest in ingesting it further, and invariably someone says "Hey, let's go ride our bikes!" or "Hey, let's build shelves in ther garage!"
And then we go ride our bikes, or build shelves out in the garage, etc.
It has been shown many, many times that there is no such thing as a "gateway" or "stepping stone" drug. What there are is folks who have addictive personalities and who are prone to addiction.