(2) A serious argument for marijuana legalization ought to demonstrate that the harms of marijuana use will not be amplified by its legalization. That seems implausible though.
(3) I have never smoked marijuana, but, like most people these days, I have seen enough of its ill effects to incline me to oppose legalization. Demagoguery and racial stereotypes have nothing to do with it.
Whereas alcohol makes it better?
(1) Opposition to marijuana legalization is not an endorsement of alcohol, nor is it a recommendation that schizophrenics take up drinking.
Beside the point, of course. A case for legal alcohol and illegal marijuana falls flat if it cites harms of the latter that are shared by the former.
(2) A serious argument for marijuana legalization ought to demonstrate that the harms of marijuana use will not be amplified by its legalization. That seems implausible though.
A serious argument for marijuana remaining illegal and alcohol legal ought to demonstrate that the harms of marijuana use will be amplified by its legalization more than the harms of alcohol are. That seems implausible though.
A serious argument for marijuana legalization need only point out that, like alcohol criminalization before it, the primary effect of marijuana criminalization is to enrich criminals with all the harms to innocent third parties that this entails.
(3) I have never smoked marijuana, but, like most people these days, I have seen enough of its ill effects to incline me to oppose legalization.
A serious argument for marijuana remaining illegal and alcohol legal is required not only to establish that marijuana is harmful - which, I remind you again, nobody here has disputed - but that its harms exceed those of alcohol. Surely you've seen the ill effects of alcohol?