I just turned 34 , started smoking weed at about 11 the first time, started smoking more often in the next few years.I played sports in high school, got a scholarship to college and so on while smoking weed. However, I ended up with a "bad crowd" in college, who smoked weed, but also were into cocaine,MDMA,LSD,methamphetamine, pills, and even heroin. It was easy for me to use any of the other drugs besides weed and I certainly did them all.As most of the crowd dealt coke,meth,heroin,etc. I had access to these drugs much easier than the average person in my area, so I decided to use the "hard drugs" more than weed, as weed was not getting me the more intense highs that coke,meth and heroin were. I do not regret doing LSD or shrooms, but all the coke, the crystal meth and especially the heroin and pills are something I wish I had never gotten into, not in college and not at the amounts available to me through my circle of smokers who dealt "hard drugs" as well as smoked weed. I ended up being stupid and used way too much coke and ended up doing heroin a lot, and blew my scholarship. I do not blame weed for this, or the other drugs either, it was all a choice I made freely, but I think that since weed is illegal, you are exposed to other drugs that are also illegal like coke,heroin,etc.. Looking back I should have just smoked weed, and left the hard drugs alone, but at 18 in college and free from any parental controls(not that they are good examples of sobriety,especially from coke and pharm. pills) I went way overboard with my drug use, although I managed to get away from using coke,and meth after a while,I still have trouble staying away from heroin a lot of times, as is seems to be vastly popular, especially in the area I live now, or was living until recently, powder heroin from colombia was easy to get and relatively cheap and pure. Anyway I think I should have waited a few years to smoke weed, and also I have an addictive personality , unlike those in college who do smoke weed,use MDMA, do coke,etc..and graduate with no problems(unless they get arrested, the they have legal problems of course).