its the opposite of an escape, it makes you focus and bring yourself back into your senses and reality. Im talking just a few hits not necessarily smoking a fat blunt or something. Its completely different than all the things you mentioned above, drinking alcohol, sleep around, compulsively spend money are all destructive or dangerous or unhealthy, and can ruin relationships. Cannabis is incredibly easy to raise, and effects no one but the user, and they can still function 100% on it. You still believe what you were told in elementary school