I was listening to a debate between a police representative of Narcotics officers within the U.S. and D L Hughley on Cnn. It took me back to 1969 and before and all the culture clashes then. Almost nothing was known then medically about the physical and psychological effects of most illegal drugs, so what most people heard in college then about illegal drugs including marijuana is mostly either laughable(to those who survived the ignorance) or pathetic when considering all those who died, or became incompetent or crazy as a result all these years.
Though the legalization of Marijuana might get rid of Mexican drug lords dealing supermarijuana at 20 times the thc strength of the 1960s, I think the problems of Marijuana, in some ways are just as bad as alcohol.
For example, people smoking marijuana don't usually get violent like on alcohol, they can easily cause an accident in which people die because they are tripping out focusing on a sunset, an ocean, a cloud or even the steering wheel when they should be driving the car.
Another problem I don't see mentioned much anymore is how much marijuana affects someone's judgment for about 6 months after consumption. So for example to quantify this: if someone was heading in their life toward Chicago they might instead wind up in San Francisco because their decision trees would be so altered during those 6 months. Also, during this time of not having the capacity to make good and useful decisions someone's life could easily get permanently thrown off course.
So, even though alcohol consumption could eventually kill someone, smoking marijuana might seriously alter someone's decision tree in a irrevocable way. Sometimes, logic and rationality affects everything and both these things are influenced for about 6 months after smoking marijuana each time.
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