As I said, the use of alcohol is not even comparable. It takes years of heavy drinking (exceeding the BAC considered to be impaired several times a week) to begin to cause equivalent damage to what even “casual” use of marijuana or other schedule one drugs causes. Marijuana causes physical damage and alters the function of the brain. Furthermore, our bodies have a dedicated metabolic pathway that exists only to destroy alcohol. We have no equivalent for any schedule I drug, so they stay in the body longer, exacerbating the ill effects of the drugs.
I can tell stories of addiction, too. The addicts I’ve known used a variety of substances. The addiction is the issue, not the specific drug used.
Will you be posting evidence - or excuses for not posting evidence?
Which it does only at decaying-fruit levels; every time one 'relaxes' from a drink, let alone gets drunk, alcohol has overwhelmed and gotten past that destruction.
“As I said, the use of alcohol is not even comparable. It takes years of heavy drinking (exceeding the BAC considered to be impaired several times a week) to begin to cause equivalent damage to what even “casual” use of marijuana or other schedule one drugs causes.”
First, we’re not talking about “other Schedule I drugs”.
That said, do you have data to support the rest of your contention?
I know of no study that says casual use of marijuana causes more brain damage than chronic drinking. Or, one that suggests permanent damage of any kind.
Marijuana is not physically addictive in the same way as tobacco, alcohol, opiods, barbiturates, amphetamines, etc.
Mentally habit-forming, yes. But, addictive? No.