[Stu]

The mind is a gateway drug. I get what you are saying but what you are describing has more to do with social and cultural nuances than Cannabis itself.

I'm betting most of anyone who ever smoked dope started off smoking a normal fag and wondering what the difference was. Or how it compared to that first time they got knackered off booze.

I know I did. I drank before I smoked and always wondered what the difference was. I couldn't even imagine what an altered state would feel like before I drank. After I drank I wondered what the other stuff did.

That and the fact that our schools wonderful homework journals carried a full colour, rather comprehensive discionary of drugs, what they looked like, and what their effects were. Wasn't long before that ended up as roach paper.