I've done meth, coke, heroin, opium, etc. so I really don't have any room to criticize anyone else for trying them as well. I haven't done anything other than weed in over 12 years, however. The two big differences that I see between natural drugs such as weed and shrooms is:

1. Addiction-weed is not phsically addictive and no where's near as psycholigically addictive as most other syntheic drugs. I've never seen anyone's life ruined by weed. I have, however, seen my best friend go so far down the road of heroin addiction that he never came back.

2. Ability to Overdose- You simply can't od on weed.

Basically the synthetics are far more dangerous than weed or shrooms. There are people like me and, I assume hellomandude, who can occaisionally use these drugs and be fine with them. Most people, however, can not.

I think one big reason that a lot of people on this board (marijuana only users) have a problem with the other synthetic drugs is that the general public tends to classify marijuana along with heroin and crack as simply "drugs". We are educated and know better but they don't. They also see marijuana as a gateway drug leading to harder drug use. Therefore, the continued use of drugs such as heroin, crack, and meth only set back the efforst to have marijuana legalized like it should be.