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No substance such as marijuana is with out harmful side effects. All drugs are. And I’m not in favor of legalizing hard rugs like cocaine or heroin How ever marijuana and compounds from it have certain medicinal benefits.

Alcohol has none. Legalize marijuana or outlaw everything again, booze, tobacco , gambling, seriously and we’ll live as the Puritans did . Legalize marijuana. Or out law every thing else and stop the moronic arguments of moral equivalence once and for all.

“certain medicinal benefits.
Alcohol has none. “

This is untrue. Resveratrol in red wine has been shown to have certain cardiovascular benefits. Beers containing containing malted barley and hops have high levels of silicon which is beneficial for bone density.

Walk down the streets of San Francisco with me, and tell me that legalized weed have been a good thing. Stoned, stupid, psychotic people... that’s the reality of widespread weed usage. I’m not saying that alcohol doesn’t have negative externalities, but walk down the streets of beer-drinking Munich, and you’re not going to see anything comparable to what I see from the “heads” in San Francisco. Walk down the streets of any wine-drinking town in Tuscany, and you’re not going to see anything comparable either.

>>marijuana and compounds from it have certain medicinal benefits. Alcohol has none.

"Ethanol is known to have a significant influence on human bodies, especially on the nervous system (1). Despite those negative effects as described in various studies, patients with certain diseases benefited from the consumption of ethanol. The clinical manifestation of ethanol-responsive movement disorders (ERMDs) could be significantly improved after ethanol intake. Patients with essential tremor (ET), one of the most common movement disorders influencing ~1% of the population worldwide (2), were first reported to respond to ethanol in 1949 by Critchley (3). Similarly, alcohol intake has long been known to decrease myoclonic symptoms in most myoclonus dystonia (MD) patients since 1967 (4). Besides, cases of different phenotypes of dystonia (5–7), dyssynergia cerebellaris myoclonica (8–11), epilepsia partialis continua (12), post-hypoxic myoclonus (13), and tremor with multiple sclerosis (14) are also reported to have similar positive responses to ethanol"

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