“Public drunkeness is the crime, “
Agreed, so I wouldn’t ban alcohol, as I stated.
Not all drugs contribute to all the anti-social activities I listed.
What sort of anti-social behavior comes from pot smoking? Milder forms, such as paranoia, lack of focus/concentration, indifference to the needs of others legitimately vulnerable to you, reduction of good inhibitions as to your personal behavior, acceptance of harder drug usage, general laziness and worthlessness.
There are exceptions, but they don’t make the rule. Just like sometimes some people can jump off a bridge get survive. However it is still a bad harmful thing to jump off of a bridge.
You won’t ban alcohol, but it can be credibly argued that alcohol use and abuse has the greatest detrimental impact upon society, if only through its prevalence.
Personally, I consider most of the anti-pot arguments to be government-sponsored BS. There isn’t a week the goes by where they don’t find yet another adverse effect of marijuana. Low testosterone, low sperm count, etc., etc., etc.
Seriously, anything with that many side effects should be fatal ON CONTACT. The fact that it can be easily grown and used, without industrial-level processing, and as such remains resistant to taxation, surely has nothing to do with it, right?
Now, let’s start talking about the adverse effects of the “War On (Some) Drugs”.