So that's why you smoke & don't drink?
I smoke weed and drink alcohol. I've freely admitted to doing both recreationally. For you to say it's wrong is to judge me. You previously stated you weren't judging, remember? The question is, which arguement do you wish to debate? If you want to debate which is a better experience, then you need to have experienced both. If you have not, you have no arguement to make. If you want to argue which is more harmful, the answer is alcohol. Alcohol has been shown to lead to many fatalities, marijuana has not. If you want to argue which is more beneficial, the answer is marijuana, it has been shown to have many more uses. So which arguement is it that you wish to pursue?
Bootleggers don't exist because there's no need for them. I think that's what you were trying to say & you're right. You can buy just about any alcoholic drink you want at the local liquor store & more. Guess what? The amount of alcohol in it is regulated as well as the taxes. A bottle Jack Daniels or a can of beer doesn't grow on a tree though there's a pretty extensive process to it unlike pot. It's an industry. How is an industry gonna survive when all a person has to do is plant a seed? How would it be regulated? Do you think drug dealers are just gonna give up or take measures to stay in business? Do you think the government is gonna unleash the most potent weed there is? No. Y'all habitual smokers aren't gonna go for some bland basic weed. Any benefit the government could possibly get wouldn't be worth the hassle of enforcing it.
You can buy alcohol up to 190 proof, that means it's 95% alcohol. I'm sure that 5% is a big deal(please note the sarcasm). As for the rest, Al Capone and other gangsters of the time had a field day with Prohibition, yet when alcohol was legalized again, their power and influence diminished greatly. As for potency of weed, that statement alone shows how ignorant you are on the subject. BTW, ignorant means uneducated, not stupid, so you can save your indignation on that one. Weed would be very much like alcohol in that a variety would be offered. There are countless of strains out there. There might be some home growers, just as there are home brewers, but the majority of the public that smokes weed would be happy to go down to the local pot store and pick up a strain, or a brownie, or a cookie, or any of a variety of other treats that can contain marijuana. The masses would rather take the simple route than do it themselves. How much of the public grows their own food?
Personally, I think you must have seen "Reefer Madness" one too many times, because pot has nowhere near the effect you seem to think it does. It's not a hallucinogenic unless laced with something, and most smokers I know don't like lacing. It doesn't cause you to go wild and do stupid things. It doesn't make you violent. The worst I've seen it do is heighten someone's paranoia a little too much. They freaked out a little but didn't get violent or try to hurt themselves in any way. For most people, it just mellows them out.
Here's a few more brush strokes for you, how many people are in jail for selling or possessing marijuana? How many tax dollars go into locking them up over a substance that does no more harm than tobacco or alcohol?
