I just saw a ton of referral traffic from a different pot forum, on a blog post I had posted on
marijuana usage leading to other drug usage. I had mentioned the new Foundation for a Drug-Free World site, the
nifty animated smoker on the front, and the fact that the site had a message delivering the
truth about marijuana. I got back a slew of various comments and such saying that basically that I had no right posting such a thing, as well as some "hee hee hee" posts saying that the site was making them more likely to smoke than not.
Now, I feel quite strongly about the fact that marijuana usage can lead straight into usage of more hard-core drugs, which can have an even more destructive effect on peoples' lives. There are all manner of arguments about the relative seriousness of marijuana (something I'm not totally going to get into here, in a marijuana forum) but I felt that between my blog post, and the site's page itself on marijuana, that this point is made pretty clear -- but I get all manner of different opinions on this.
So, rather than just engage in a flamewar, I'm actually interested in what you think about this -- after reading a
site such as this on joints, what that would make one think if one was a youth not yet involved in drugs.