[tacticalogic]

What a waste of time. Common sense says that pot smokers are more more likely to try others drugs, including stronger drugs.

Indeed. But the party line is that the problem lies in the substance, not the people.

[robertpaulsen]

"But the party line is that the problem lies in the substance, not the people."

I've never seen it stated that way.

But it just makes sense that if a certain percentage of people who use Substance A go on to try Substance B, reducing the number of people who use Substance A would result in fewer people going on to try Substance B.

(Granted, there are people who are using Substances X or Y or Z (or no substances) that go on to try Substance B, but that's not the subject of this article.)