You really think marijuana is a worse drug than alcohol? How many murders do think involve alcohol? Just look at the shootings and stabbings that happen outside bars across the country. The people who say there’s no negative side effects to marijuana are irresponsible, but it’s just as ridiculous to pretend that marijuana causes more violent behavior in people than alcohol does. That doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of people who can drink responsibly without any problems.
How many people who smoke marijuana also drink alcohol?
Most of the shootings in Chicago are gang related and they are dope pusher turf wars.
Unlike pot, you can have a beer or a glass of wine without having any change in behavior and/or mental state.
Genetic mapping has provided a clue about human vulnerablity to each of these drugs-— both marijuana/THC (the DEA described Class I, though is non-narcotic), and ethanol/alcohol. There is absolutely no doubt about population subsets highly susceptible to either individual agent, dependent on genetic region “dosing” which are proven altered by the environmental chemicals.
Schizophrenia ID’d sites have been studied extensively in the UK, affecting permanent brain cell development alterations in non- mature growing brains up to age of maturity (minimum age 24) with marijuana/THC in populations of chronic use.
With alcohol, entire population groups/genomes have deep susceptibility and lack of metabolic processing (for example: Pima Indians, East Asian population subgroups, Iberian/Celtic gene markers in populations with high alcoholism addiction.
Neither of these are in any dispute- not in modern medicine. What adults, past brain development stages do, is of course their own business— until it no longer is just their business when visited upon others— violence, automotive accidents, motor cortex degradation/ loss of impulse controls. The kind of things which should not be allowed in the transportation industry (which btw also outlaws non-treated Type II diabetes for the potential insulin/sugar collapse, say in commercial trucking or air freight driver).
Cannot “wash away” scientific progress made in the study of these recreational agents. Again— don’t care what adults do at home- but it becomes a societal issue when you have the social impact of people provably out of control. The law must respond.