Hard Drugs vs. Soft Drugs
Cannabis isn't injected. Q: What the difference between hard drugs and soft drugs? The answer is relative for recreational drugs. At the very least, soft drugs tend to be things we don't even consider a drug. On a daily basis, most every American uses some type of recreational, psychoactive drug to help them get by, perhaps starting with caffeine (world's most popular drug) and ending with a glass of wine. Legal drugs verses illegal drugs isn't a fair comparison between soft and hard drugs. Consider that alcohol wasn't merely illegal, it was, literally, unconstitutional due to the 18th Amendment (repelled by the 21st Amendment). An average of six people die from alcohol poisoning each day ; compare that to cannabis (marijuana) where there hasn't ever been a recorded death from cannabis , alone, in an adult (I still find that statistic hard to believe). My point is that a drug's legal status, which changes over time, isn't a good litmu...