“it can be credibly argued that alcohol use and abuse has the greatest detrimental impact upon society, if only through its prevalence.”
No, it can be credibly argued that alcohol ABUSE alone (drunkenness) has the greatest detrimental impact upon society. Moderate alcohol use, without drunkenness, is no problem. Caffeine use is actually a boon to society; and tobacco use truly harms only the user, if that. Second hand smoke arguments are a crock.
As for arguments against pot being government sponsored BS, I am not leaning on any government sponsored BS. I am relying on my own personal experience and observations.
My list of side affects is not all-inclusive, i.e., not every drug does every side effect to its nth degree every time. Indeed then they would be fatal ON CONTACT.
Instead, they destroy by degrees, harming the user as well as innocent people in their wake - unless the user stops before serious damage(s) are done. And so they are touted as somehow “harmless,” just because we all don’t instantly drop dead at the moment of first use.
So, alcohol “use” gets pass (rightly), but marijuana “use” can only be detrimental.
Again, BS.
There has been a government-coordinated (FUNDED) attempt to paint marijuana in a negative light, far disproportionate than it deserves. It would seem that there is no marijuana “use”, only “abuse”.
From my “personal experience and observations”, weed gets a very bad rap. And almost all of it is unfounded and a great deal of it hysterical. Again, look at the growing list of “adverse” effects. Nearly every one of them a government-sponsored smear. I’ll say it again, if marijuana caused all the things the goobermint says it does, it would be more toxic than Plutonium, Benzene and Arsenic, combined. You would die just from stepping on it (sarcasm, but well made).
“Reefer Madness”, indeed.
So, we’ve acknowleged that there’s a list of supposed/proven effects from marijuana. Now, let’s make a list caused by the WO(S)D.