Heroin and other hard drugs can make one addicted. Psychotropic drugs can make one have psychotic episodes. I would call that equivalent in severity.
Okay. Some people have psychotic episodes on marijuana. I don’t smoke it, but I have when I was younger. I never had a psychotic episode on marijuana. But I did on alcohol.
Point is, marijuana is much less harmful to society than alcohol. I’ve seen it with my own eyes, and worn the shoes myself. Not everyone can handle it, that’s true. I don’t know any fully functional drinkers, I know tons of fully functional marijuana users. The medical benefits from cannabis are numerous. If you say it’s just an excuse, then you’ve never met a stage 3 chemo patient that uses it so they can eat, without vomitting. Or someone with chronic back pain, someone that cannot sleep at night.
If recreational alcohol is okay, then why isn’t marijuana? Alcohol leads to all those drugs. AND MARIJUANA. If I had never drank in high school, I most likely would not have smoked marijuana.