Does that include using the mind-altering drug alcohol?
No.
How do we know this is so?
Common sense for one.
The battle cry of those too lazy to substantiate their claims.
You champion smoking pot
False - I champion the freedom of adults to use alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. My recommendation to others is to use none of these harmful substances, just as I myself use none of them.
and I should be concerned with what you think?
Are you concerned with what readers of this thread think about your persistent refusal to substantiate your claims?
There is plenty of evidence and all you have to do is google it, if you want to.
I'm not going to do your homework for you; in the arena of reasoned debate, the burden of proof is on the party making the claim.
The truth is that pot is a filthy life altering, mind altering, spiritual altering, rotten drug.
Yet you claim, with no evidence, that the mind-altering drug alcohol is not.
Yet the huge sized sugary drinks being denied to NYers is probably cause for outrage here..
"“Those pressuring the Justice Department to act precipitously are using the same rhetoric and arguments they have used for decades, defending federal policies that have neither ended the illegal trade in marijuana nor alleviated the violence and danger that arises from the black market.”