Pot and other substances

I haven't used a lot of types of drugs during my life, but when it comes to illegal substances I did use a lot of marijuana years ago. It started when I was sixteen and I tried it with my friends, I remember I was pretty scared, despite my friends telling me that I wasn't going to feel anything, since it was my first time trying it. That actually happened and after that I started to smoke pot regularly. During my senior year in high school, me and my friends used it a lot, and during my first semester here I started smoking even more frequently. But after some months I got really bored of it and later I started to feel uncomfortable when I was high, at the end I stopped consuming it voluntarily. I don't have a bad experience with it but to be honest being high isn't appealing to me anymore. 

I never had prejudices with pot before since my dad smokes regularly and he even produces marijuana oil sometimes for the elders in my family, so I never saw it as something bad, but what irritates me a lot is when people is way to into it (just because they want to) and isn't capable to function without it, I used to be really angry with my friends when they wouldn't work with me for classes because they were too high and did everything SO slow. But apart from that, I don't think I have a problem as long as you are mature enough to not get too attached to it. But what really worries me is when people use another drugs (and sometimes marijuana too) to escape their reality. Drugs addiction isn't the cause of the problem, but the consequence, and I think it's stupid that society prefers to judge and punish instead of recognizing and working on the real situation. In countries like Portugal drugs aren't even illegal anymore, they choose to worry about what really matters and they don't have high consume statitics anymore.

 My mom is a social worker and she's specifically into the drugs abuse prevention program, I have heard the saddest stories about young and old people being so depressed that being unconscious is the only way out of their sadness and frustration. 

I was going to attach a photo of me high but I couldn't find one. I think I already said a lot, bye :)