I think that alcohol is more accepted for this reason: You can go out and drink a beer or two and not be drunk. It is a social thing.
Also, alcohol is not illegal in the US. Pot is.
As far as I know, if you smoke pot, you are going to get high. Period. People dont go hang out and smoke a joint just for the taste or to be social. They do it to get high.
Dont get me wrong, I am not saying one is better than the other. The fact is, in the US, one is illegal and one is not. One is socially acceptable, and one is not.
I personally am pro-alcohol and anti-drugs. I guess this means I am a total idiot (as stated above), but that is how I feel. When pot becomes legal, I wont have a problem with it.
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Originally posted by Rodney
I kind of wonder if alcohol is more acceptable to a macho culture because it exaggerates sterotypical "manly" characteristics: aggression, risk-taking, etc. Whereas potheads are seen as passive, without motivation, junk-food-eating: "female" characteristics.
I don't believe this, but when some hairy-chested type starts talking about stupid, lazy potheads while he's swilling his sixth brew and pounding the table, I gotta wonder.
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