“If you say it won’t hurt anything to try pot, I believe that it becomes easier to convince oneself to do harder drugs using the same rational.”
No. Someone using a very safe drug is not going to want to try something “hard” like opiods. They all hear of what happens to people using opiods. With Cannabis, many people know succesful friends who use cannabis daily and it is clearly not damaging them. They are doing better than drinkers. Hell, many people know others who owe their success to cannabis. It helps people rest after stressful days and gives them creativity when they are stuck on a problem.
Succesful people open to intoxicants may try some Rx stimulants or oral street drugs like MDMA. These things are about as safe as alcohol and 99% of users do not ruin their lives with it.
The people abusing hard dangerous drugs generally have mental issues. Either genetic or something terrifying that happened in their lives. It is a step toward suicide and a cry for help. Placing the sick in prison with violent animals is one of the most shameful things ever done by modern society
So all the people that are on hard drugs and say they got their start with marijuana, were wasting their time. They should have just gone for the real stuff from the start?