Hard drug use almost always starts with marijuana use. If you don’t want to get busted for a drug crime, then don’t use drugs.
Wrong drug use almost always starts with alcohol. Do want alcohol made illegal?
“Hard drug use almost always starts with marijuana use.”
The vast majority of the exploding number of heroin addicts became so because of *prescription* opiates. Also, as a class, they are no longer exclusively poor, but middle, upper middle, and wealthy classes are just as prone to become junkies.
This is not helped by black market prescription drugs running around $100 a pill, while heroin prices have dropped to about $5 for a greater amount of opiate.
And with the introduction of Fentanyl and its analogs, most of which are far more potent than heroin, and far cheaper to make and smuggle, the end result is going to be a lot of dead junkies.
Bottom line: spending $100 billion a year to stop marijuana is even dumber than alcohol prohibition. We need that money for many more things than to waste it on dope.