Marijuana the argument, 'marijuana is a safe drug and it's use will not cause harm or lead to addiction to harder drugs'

'Marijuana is a safe drug and its use will not cause harm or lead to addiction to harder drugs' i disagree, my essay labels clearly the medically proven effects of marijuana use, and although there is no proof that marijuana leads to addiction of harder drugs, many heroin and cocaine users say their first experience with drugs was marijuana. I disagree with this statement and to back up my argument I have collected a range …

…what their very first drug of abuse was before experimenting with their drug of choice which brought them to addiction treatment, most addicts will say "marijuana". The early marijuana smokers, the researchers found, were about twice as likely to use opiates like heroin, and five times as likely to use hallucinogens. About 46 percent of the early marijuana users reported that they later abused or became dependent on marijuana, and 43 percent had become dependent on alcohol.