Because you don't have an abuse with alcohol in moderation and if it takes time to get going, you may never have a problem.
With pot and other drugs, it goes to a whole different area of the brain with it's effects (which you are welcome to go research as I have in the past).
Smoking gets things into the system faster and more effectively because the lungs instantly send it everywhere in the body.
That is one of the reasons there are inhalers...
Alcohol takes a few minutes, which is not enough time to avoid problems. And as I aksed, what about orally ingested drugs (e.g. LSD)?
With pot and other drugs, it goes to a whole different area of the brain with it's effects
That doesn't prove that one is abuse and the other is not.
Why should a specific method of consumption and the resulting efficacy of delivery of this herbs constituents have anything to do with determination of legality? Only the end results of long term effects should carry any weight. And, if we are going to do this for one food then we should for all. Say goodbye to grilled food, mushrooms, refined sugars, hydrogenated fats...
How this herb may affect the thoughts in any individual is not the purview of the Federal Government.
"I have sworn upon the altar of Almighty God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
--Thomas Jefferson