Yes.
given that all your arguments posted here against pot also apply to the alcohol you wouldn't ban?
No they don't. Alcohol has been a factor in human society for many thousands of years. It is part of many cultures and has a long history of acceptance despite the ill it causes for some.
Marijuana on the other hand, is a relatively recent addition to the available pharmacopeia, and while it may not be as bad as alcohol in some respects, it produces plenty of negatives for the society which has to put up with it.
We don't need another one. The one we have already causes enough damage.
Now if you asked me whether I would prefer pot to Alcohol, I would have to say yes, but we don't get an either/or choice, we get a choice of "both", and likely "All."
That choice of "All" is the one that would certainly kill us. Saying "yes" to Marijuana is just leading up to that choice of "all."
No they don't.
Yes they do - what you post next is a new (to this thread) argument from you.
Alcohol has been a factor in human society for many thousands of years. It is part of many cultures and has a long history of acceptance despite the ill it causes for some.
"Some"? A few posts ago YOU were (falsely) accusing ME of denying the harms of alcohol - and here you are minimizing it.
Marijuana on the other hand, is a relatively recent addition to the available pharmacopeia, and while it may not be as bad as alcohol in some respects, it produces plenty of negatives for the society which has to put up with it.
So if the issue is still negatives and ills, how is cultural acceptance even relevant?
We don't need another one. The one we have already causes enough damage.
And yet you say "Were I in a position to do so, I would not ban it [alcohol]" despite the ill it causes - that just doesn't add up.
Marijuana has been used as an agent for achieving euphoria since ancient times; it was described in a Chinese medical compendium traditionally considered to date from 2737 B.C. It also has a long history of use as a medicinal herb. Its use spread from China to India and then to N Africa and reached Europe at least as early as A.D. 500.
The first confirmed written record of whisky comes from 1405 in Ireland. In the Irish Annals of Clonmacnoise in 1405, the first written record of whisky attributes the death of a chieftain to "taking a surfeit of aqua vitae" at Christmas. In Scotland, the first evidence of whisky production comes from an entry in the Exchequer Rolls for 1494 where malt is sent "To Friar John Cor, by order of the king, to make aquavitae", enough to make about 500 bottles.