Cannabis is way better than alcohol, I recommend you start with 5 mg or better yet smoke weed first. 10 mg can be kind of strong especially if you’re new. Do you have access to Legal weed? If you don’t can you have someone buy from a licensed dispensary for you?

It will be very strong your first time so I recommend starting slow. I smoked a single joint my first time and that got me completely stoned for several hours. For your first time if you can reliably source whatever you want I recommend getting a strain with more CBD in it. It will give you a more mellow higher than just the high THC low CBD variants there are most common these days. I’m experienced and I still kind of prefer that.

The term drugs is extremely Broad and covers a very large number of substances that are completely different. I recommend sticking to weed for at least a couple years before you even think of trying anything else, even then there are certain classes that I would never recommend you ever try recreationally. Never do opioids, never use benzodiazepines recreationally and even with a prescription be careful. Psychedelics are great but you have to have to do it right. This is not an exhaustive list of do’s and don’ts, I might write one someday