I tried a wide variety of drugs as a college kid and decided that my choice was clear: drugs/slacking or studying/applying myself. It's true that drug use can very easily progress well beyond experimentation and into addiction/problems. The same thing is true for alcohol, internet porn, plastic surgery, and a huge variety of other things. I feel everyone should make their own choices, but that it is important for good information and data to be out there and available. I don't feel that that was the case in the 90s regarding drugs. Instead it was more "just say no" and "DARE" and when you later dabbled in marijuana then you were left with the opinion of "Well govt and society lied to me about mj; what about the other drugs?" As a result, my friends and I tended to try everything just to see what would happen. Some drugs are, in fact, very bad for you (duh). I have never seen a less productive group of people than a group of college kids with a dormroom full of pills they bought in Mexico. And that was all perfectly legal (though not especially bright). I graduated with a 3.7 GPA from college, and managed only a 1.8 that term! That was when I made my decision to work on education instead of partying and living the "high life". That decision has worked out pretty well for me thus far.
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