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Originally Posted by stevie667
That argument is like saying we should ban cars because they kill so many people each year. They're a part of our lifestyle, realistically there is no chance that they can be taken away. Cannabis can stay illegial with less effort that it would take to criminalise alcohol, and without the riots.
The topics are linked, no doubt, but is in improper to start preaching one way or another about alcohol when the debate isn't about alcohol.
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Wrong. Cars do not change inhabitions, make us sloppy, or have any real chemical effect on the brain. Cars are tools that are intended to use as transportation. Alcohol, while possibly having some nutritional value, is not intended as something functional in the same sense as an automobile. Most people drink for flavor, feeling, or some combination of the two (much like marijuana). Ingesting or inhaling THC is done so in order to relax and get stoned, like alcohol is often taken in to get relaxed or buzzed. In a discussion about the possible legalization of marijuana, one must mention similar topics for the use of comparison. That's why the debate includes alcohol.