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Originally Posted by willravel
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.
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well, thanks to this fucking internet connection, my long response is now gone, so i will paraphrase, so excuse the bluntness.
Its naive to say that cars do not have an effect on peoples minds and behaviour.
It is completly impractical to ban alcohol, whatever the medical benefits are. People will be forced to move to something else to enjoy themselves, and whos to say that won't be illegial too?
Cannabis and alcohol have significantly different effects, as you stated.
Cannabis is illegial already, banning alcohol failed miserably.
Think that about covers it, sorta.