When alcohol became legal everywhere, did the boozer culture explode? Was the stoner culture ubiquitous the last time pot was legal everywhere?
The "boozer" culture is very prevalent in our society.
Fair enough. We seem to be handling that degree of prevalence well, and no reason has been offered why we should expect anything worse from legal marijuana.
alcohol has long been a part of American culture despite the progressives' attempt to abolish its use in the 1920s. [...] I'd say the boozer culture never left
Yes, a substance culture's prevalence seems to have little to do with the law. You've shown that to be the case for alcohol - and marijuana was less prevalent even when legal, and for a time grew in prevalence despite its illegality.
I don't think so, either. And I'd even be somewhat cool of advertising regulations slapped on it akin to the restrictions placed on advertising hard alcohol.
It's all good. People around here who freak out over grass of all things are high-sterical.