[microgood]

Yes if you keep everybody stoned, they won’t complain about the taxes so much. ‘Course, they won’t be able to pay them, either. ‘Course, what do the libs care, they don’t pay them anyway, and the people who run the show are too damned stoned to notice or care that they can’t pay the bills they’re running up...

This also applies to alcohol

Yes if you keep everybody drunk, they won’t complain about the taxes so much. ‘Course, they won’t be able to pay them, either. ‘Course, what do the libs care, they don’t pay them anyway, and the people who run the show are too damned drunk to notice or care that they can’t pay the bills they’re running up...

[Humble Servant]

Not quite the same. There is a remarkable sense of nonchalant apathy about everything that comes with pot, and it has a different quality than alcohol abuse. It’s like Carlin’s routine about painkillers at the dentists’—”You still feel the pain, you just don’t give a s**t.”