So as a person of principle you also support a return to alcohol Prohibition - correct?
No, as a person who did drug/alcohol counseling for years, I would (1) point out the differences between pot and alcohol, and (2) point out that alcohol is under legal controls.
As for point #1, there is a known blood/alcohol parameter beyond which people are driving impaired. With pot, the active ingredient is used to “get high”, and that is the first effect of the substance. IOW, “high” is driving impaired, whereas a single social drink about every 1.5 hours or so does not approach impairment at all.
That's not a difference in the substances but in their current typical patterns of use. When alcohol was illegal its active ingredient was used to “get high” - nobody went to a speakeasy to have a single social drink about every 1.5 hours or so.
And until a evidence-based limit on cannabinoid impairment can be established I'd be fine with a no-driving-with-any-pot-in-the-system law.
If there were a joint that could be smoked that did not get the person high, and they could then drive unimpaired, then I’d view alcohol and marijuana the same.
Who says a joint is the minimum dosage of marijuana? Educate yourself: https://www.google.com/search?q=one-hitter+pipe.
I don’t know your state, but in mine there must be a license to sell alcohol, hard alcohol can be sold only in state stores, there is an age limit for use, and the books are full of driving and behavior penalties for impairment by alcohol and illegal sales of alcohol.
I support and would expect similar regulations on legal marijuana (except for the state stores - go free market).
The above is not correct. Social drinking is thousands of years old.
Sorry, jsntn, my years of counseling say that no one wants inactive pot and they always smoke for the high. People do not say, "I only want the flavor."
Yes, we agree about controls.
Nonetheless, at this point in time, legalization without controls would only make the culture more dangerous. We don't need that.
I don't like things that make the culture more dangerous. Some things we can fix and others we simply have to keep rejecting because they are inherently dangerous or unnatural.