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Hate to break this to you, but weed is more ancient than even alcohol.

Really? Well i've been misinformed then.

And the Founders of this country both grew it and smoked it.

Oh, I have no doubt they grew it, but back then it was used for this sensible thing called *ROPE*. But as for smoking it? You got any proof that they smoked it? I know Libertarians always say that they did, but I have yet to see any proof that they did. Perhaps you can provide some?

And your false danger comparison is amusing, because weed not only doesn't kill 85,000 people per year, it doesn't kill any at all.

It doesn't have 150 million users in this country either, And yes, it does kill.

And no one is saying children should smoke it.

Oh really? Is it because it's harmful or something?

Anything can kill taken as an overdose, and children are far more susceptible to many things, such as, for example, alcohol. And as far as the Founders smoking, there's simply no reason why they shouldn't - it wasn't harmful, and it was relaxing, in an age without many of the pharmaceuticals we take for granted. And though they grew it for rope, you only separate the name and female plants to cultivate it for smoking, and Washington recorded doing just that. In addition, these people drank like fish and all smoked tobacco and grew it. So smoking hemp they were already growing, a plant long known - thousands of years - for its effects, is more than likely.

In any event, the point is that alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana, and that is clearly born out by statistics - here and around the world. Hundreds of millions of people smoke weed, and in comparison to dangerous alcohol effects, weed comes up statistically not just low, but zero. That's just the plain truth.

How you can argue that weed is dangerous for adults because it negatively affects childhood development, while simultaneously protecting, of all things, alcohol, is beyond me. By accepting alcohol as the legally acceptable standard, there should be nothing barring weed to anyone accept children - just like alcohol.