Yes - remember how it failed in pretty much the same ways that pot criminalization is failing?
People can drink without the goal of mind alteration
When that drug was illegal, people drank almost exclusively with the goal of mind alteration.
You can’t even begin to compare the two
FAR MORE people enjoy alcohol than pot. Most adults stop using pot once they grow up because they see the stupidity of its use. We still enjoy a drink or two, taste and socializing without the need for mind alteration. Yet even alcohol had to be far more regulated, note the increase in DWI laws over 20-30 years. You want a repeat of that with respect to dope? Because that will happen with legalization.
I sure hope not you or anyone in your family becomes part of the 9-16% who gets addicted by this shyte. Stop defending or rationalizing it, it’s another scourge on our society.