It was tried. Adding pot to the problem isn't going to make it better, is it.
Besides, there are plenty who would like to see booze banned. But unlike pot, booze can be consumed in moderation without becoming stoned out of your mind. Of course, that's a concept those who need to be stoned all the time just can't grasp. For them, that's what they make boxed wine and cheap beer for, the good stuff is for those who are more refined. Pot has only one perpose.
> But unlike pot, booze can be consumed in moderation without becoming stoned out of your mind.
No, *like* pot. I've no use for *any* mind alterring substances, but I've seen more than my share of people smoking weed. They were generally substantially less affected by it than people pounding down the brews.
The stoners are the public face of weed... as the boozed-out winos were of alcohol in the years before prohibition. I suspect we'd all be rather surprised at how prevalent pot is amongst those who seem perfectly sober.
I see all such drugs as equally silly and stupid. But I also don't see it as the business of governemnt to tell people what to do with themselves. And since there's no value to booze that pot doesn't have... the laws for one should be the same as the laws for the other.