Swamp_Thing:

1- A Majority would mean that out of 100 people who try weed, 51 will go on to harder drugs. Not even the authorities admit that much.
2- I admit the health risks, and as I've said before, I still smoke because I like to. A couple of joints every week is, IMHO, not an addiction. Grisu begs to differ. Its the same with alcohol or cigarettes, they're bad, and yet theyre still sold, and I doubr anyone can get away saying that in fact drinking alcohol and smoking is good for your health.
3- I respect your knowledge, but again you presume wrong things about me. I have been to countless shanty towns to score hash, as it was hard to come by where I live. I have visited La Rosilla, las Ramblas.... and I have seen drug centers with my own eyes. Again, all the thousands of people you met which ended up taking heroin, they did indeed start with weed.... but I never denied that. All I say is, go out to MAdrid, on a Saturday night, and see the tens of thousands of people smoking hash. According to you, a majority will go on to other drugs, what I say is that that sentence has no validity, and it doesnt. If I go to a drug rehabilitation program, of course most people will have tried weed, as it is a soft drug and easy to come by, and most addicts will have tried more then one type of drug. Of my age group, I would say most, if not all the people I know have tried hash. None are users of heroin.
Basically, all I disputed from your argument was that you claimed most people WILL try harder stuff. My reply to that is that you are wrong. For you to be correct would mean that out of 3 weed users, 2 will go on to harder stuff. In a very poor barriada, I can accept that. In the larger sense (as I believe, Spains population of 40 million is not exclusive to barriadas) that statement doesnt hold tight.