There you go chasing hobgoblins. If beverage alcohol were just discovered, with all its attendant downside risks, do you really think we would say, "Cool let's legalize it and let thirty thousand drivers a year smash their drunken brains out and kill innocent victims as well?"
Do you really?
We could call it, uh, like, uh...Pubs, no no Ice houses, better yet..bars.
Then we could legally become intoxicated and the government can tax it...yea tax it.
What a bunch of hypocrites. Alcohol is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths over the last couple of decades...and it's legal. After a hard day legislating laws to put someone in jail for marijuana, our politicians pat themselves on the back and agree to meet at the local dispensary to knock back a couple of scotch and sodas.