[dragnet2]

To compare pot to alcohol is simply a false analogy. Alcohol has been a pervasive part of human culture for 10,000 years. We drink wine at meals and at religious rituals. It is nothing like pot. People smoke pot to get high. No one smokes pot to express culture. You can drink without getting drunk.

That's the funniest damn thing I've heard in the past 4 hours.

It make come as a dramatic shock to you, but alcohol has killed more people, and destroyed more families, than any drug, ever. Alcohol is a vicious mass murdering drug, when compared to something like pot. The graveyards are jammed with drinkers and victims of drinkers.

[garjog]

“It make come as a dramatic shock to you, but alcohol has killed more people,”

You commit the fallacy of comparing incomparable units.

Pot and alcohol are alike in some ways, but vastly different in other ways. Someone might argue that alcohol is worse. But, this still doesn’t refute my claim that to compare pot to alcohol is a false analogy.

The question isn’t “lets be consistent and ban all harmful substances that can be abused.”

The question being discussed is: “Let legalize — and thus vastly increase usage — of a harmful substance that can be abused.”

It is like saying:

X (fill in the blank of a legal, harmful thing) is more dangerous than smoking pot, and X is legal, therefore we should be consistent and legalize pot.

We should not make our society worse for the sake of consistency.