[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.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

alcohol affects different people different ways. some drunk people also become devil-may-care. others fly into rages at the smallest or even imagined provocations.

[Ken H]

Rasmussen national survey, late July 2010:

Seventy-five percent (75%) support medicinal marijuana use, while only 14% say patients should not be allowed to smoke doctor-prescribed pot. Support for medical marijuana is even higher than it was in October, when 63% said it should be allowed.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/index.php/public_content/politics/general_politics/july_2010/43_say_marijuana_should_be_legalized_42_disagree

[microgood]

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.

In the case of abuse, I would agree they are different. In the case of recreational use, I think it depends on the person. Some people I know who can drink one beer and blow a whole day off, and knew some who would smoke to make things like digging ditches more tolerable and would actually work harder than when they were not stoned.

[Moral Hazard]

“There is a remarkable sense of nonchalant apathy about everything that comes with pot, and it has a different quality than alcohol abuse.”

True. For instance there is much less violence associated with smoking pot than drinking.