Every pot smoker I have ever had this conversation with told me that, since I have never tried marijuana, I am not qualified to comment on it. That said, I do enjoy certain adult beverages in moderation and have never been in trouble for anything associated with my imbibing of libations.
Color me biased.
... vs. the same types of cases directly connected to alcohol.
Of course you're qualified to comment! It doesn't mean your comments come from an informed POV.
And if you HAD gotten in trouble with something associated with your imbibing of libations, would you then be questioning the right or wrongness of said libations being legal? Would the trouble be due to the libations, or to YOU?
And if you hold the drinker rather than the alcohol responsible for the accidents and violence and harm connected to alcohol use ... why would you hold a literal weed that can grow wild nearly anywhere, responsible for the trouble a lazy, hedonistic, poorly-disciplined amoral person gets into after smoking it? Or do you think it was the weed that made the person that way?
So if you want to outlaw weed, fine -- but isn't it supremely hypocritical not to call equally for outlawing alcohol? And isn't it supremely hypocritical not to outlaw guns and booze for all because some people abuse them, but to enthusiastically outlaw, on the same premise, a weed that will grow all by itself in a friggin' abandoned vacant lot?
Pretty much anything in moderation is harmless. Alcohol is physically addictive, and you can consume a lethal does in minutes.
I don’t consume either substance, so I don’t have any personal skin in the game, but I believe relaxing pot laws will be a benefit to society.