I note that your essay treats a soft drug more harshly and misleadingly than it does hard drugs. All in all, a very good ad for the hard drug alcohol industry.
I took that to mean that alcohol is by your defintion a "hard drug". My question was hence, if you believe that, then what intoxicant aside from pot would you purport to be soft?
If I misunderstood you, my apologies. I was on drugs at the time...LOL. Advil...Diet Dr. Pepper...