Good arguements overall. But with the sake of sounding repetitive, I used it for 20 years and have abandonded it for the last 10.

It's very over rated as an enhancement to life and is bad for your health.

And yes, it can lead to harder drugs. My pot smoking crowd (who thankfully like myself has grown up and out of it) did occassionally harbor the opportunity to try other things like coke and acid. Someone in pot smoking group will always be the one to do the introducing of other drugs.