Agreed, if you are that stupid, fine ... purifies the gene pool when they OD.
I am always confused on why alcohol is legal but weed isn't ... how is this rationalized?
It isn't as if we didn't try to ban alcohol. The stuff was deemed to be enough of a scourge on society that we criminalized it for many years in the early 20th century. It's just difficult to ban an addictive recreational substance once it's been legal for so long. The arguments for banning alcohol are much stronger than the arguments for banning marijuana.
History, mainly. There is absolutely no logical rationale for the one to be legal and the other to be prohibited, other than the fact that historically alcohol was the drug of choice for the powerful and marijuana was the drug of choice for the powerless.
My assumption is that one can have a drink or two without it affecting him the way a smoking pot would. That's a bare bones thought.
I'm no expert on this matter though. I tend to observe these threads from afar, let the people who are used to debating it be without my messing around. :)