I am familiar with marijuana psychosis among other issues. Paranoid disorders induced by excessive cannabis abuse. Also, cirrhosis of the liver from alcohol abuse. None of our controlled substances are harmless. But it still does not compare to alcohol.

For starters, alcohol is one of only two substances that the withdrawals can kill you. I have had elderly relatives in the hospital literally prescribed whiskey to keep them alive.

There is a point of diminished or even no returns with regards to smoking pot. Alcohol, you drink more it effects you more until you pass out, die, or transform into a literal monster.

I don’t think you can put marijuana in the same class as opiates, amphetamines, and these other drugs in these apocalyptic videos. It does not bear the same type of fruit. It is only a “gateway drug” in the sense that the same people that supplied it in the past also supplied other illegal substances.

Alcohol is ten times as bad as marijuana. I grew up around a bunch of potheads and bikers, I will die on this hill. Nobody beats their woman after smoking a joint. They don’t even fight. “I will kick his MF @&$ tomorrow”.

Blackout drunk, a man is about as unpredictable as someone using any other substance.

That's what I though.

I am glad to have met your expectations. Does your question have any relevance to my comments or the reality of MJ psychosis?

Gotta disagree 10 Guage. I consider them almost equal besides Marijuana being Illegal. Todays kids will get high and rob you, do a drive by or just fight you for fun. I have known many kids kill someone while high.

Laws and mores that have stood the test of thousands of years of human experience are not a mistake.
We have a segment of the population that thinks they are smarter than many generations of clear thinking, intelligent people.

They are fools.

Hey, let’s argue about which drugs are okay and which ones are not, based on arbitrary lines we draw in the sand based upon our own individual preferences, instead of arguing about freedom and actual crimes and why what we do in our own space and time is none of the government’s business. Hell no. We don’t want to have that discussion. We’d rather have a bunch of crooked politicians make that decision for us. We’d rather have them tell us what we can and can’t do. We’d rather vote based on what suits us, according to our wants, as opposed to voting for what keeps us free.

That is a really good point. Doesn’t change the fact that everywhere drugs have been decriminalized, there is a region that looks like a post-apocalyptic themed movie that literally spreads like a malignant tumor. I think it is on purpose, brought to you by the same tyrannical mf’s that are counting on crime to attempt to justify their tyrannical ideas to the masses.

When I drink I feel horrible the next day. If a eat a gummie then I feel perfectly normal the next day. Judge how you will.

The hardest part for me, who enjoys an occasional puff, is being lectured by people that consume alcohol, adderal, xanax, ambien, ozempic, etc. on a daily basis.

Those drugs are thermonuclear weapons compared to weed (.177 caliber pellet gun).

This kind of stuff is exactly the problem, people assume just because something does or doesn't affect themselves it must hold true for everyone else or be better or worse than something else.

The reality of it is, everything we ingest can be harmful or cause problems for any of us. For some, a single drink of alcohol is all it takes to go on a all-day binge and be a wicked person in the process, For some, they can be totally drunk off their arse and not have a bit of problem and have no hang over the next day. Anecdotal evidence of how something affects you or your loved ones is not the reason we say "drugs are bad" or "alcohol is bad" or "smoking is bad" or vaping is bad" or "taking prescription drugs not according to directions is bad"....these things are bad because in SOME people, they cause significant personal and societal issues. The fact these things do not cause trouble for all people DOES NOT MATTER. I have seen people shot in the head and live, and some people shot in the arm die. Does that mean getting shot isn't bad just because one person lived and only one died? Switch out the gun shot for knife stab, and the same thought process occurs. We know some things are bad and therefore we say these things you can not do, no matter how much you might want to.

We need to get past the idea that "I do X all the time and am just fine, so it must not be that bad"

You aren't everyone, and everyone isn't you. You want a first hand look at the OP premise, go to Portland Oregon, go to any inner city homeless camp, go to any ER on any given day and you will see what happens to people who have no control over what they want to do in their private lives.

Until we get tot he society where personal responsibility is actually owned 100% by the person, we have to put our foot down somewhere and say enough is enough. The line needs to be drawn somewhere. And I still solidly stand behind the line that illicit drug use needs to be illegal. The experiment has shown legalizing drug use DOES NOT work.

Anyone can abuse a lot of "drugs" and screw up your health. Food is America's current "drug" of choice. The sad part. Most fat/overweight people don't care.

Any drug can can be used responsibly or irresponsibly. Alcohol, we have society drinker and the drunk. Same goes for weed. Thousands if not millions are the casual weekend user, the occasional user that functions as good or better than the person who has the occasional beer or hard drink after work.

Prescription drugs, same issue, some abuse them most use them as prescribed.

When I drink I feel horrible the next day. If a eat a gummie then I feel perfectly normal the next day. Judge how you will.

You’re not repairing whatever the problem is with either one of those. Treating a symptom of a condition with a street drug is a dirty bandage at best.

You’re not repairing whatever the problem is with either one of those. Treating a symptom of a condition with a street drug is a dirty bandage at best.