My point, for the clueless, is that they're both illegal, Schedule I drugs. Any parent who leaves this type of drug laying around for a 6-year-old child to find is guilty of child endangerment. And stupidity.
You are correct, they are both illegal, but the only property that a Schedule I drug must possess is that it has to have a potential for abuse. If cigarettes and alcohol were illegal, I’m sure that the government would see fit to include them as Schedule I drugs.
But to say that the addictive properties and\or the potential to harm oneself is the same for marijuana as it is for heroin is at best absurd. That’s like saying the potential for harm is the same from leaving a slingshot laying around as it is for a loaded 357. If you are going to try and make comparisons, at least try to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.
Alcohol is more addictive and more deadly than the illegal Schedule I drug marijuana. If leaving the latter laying around for a 6-year-old child to find is child endangerment, then isn't leaving the former laying around for a 6-year-old child to find even greater child endangerment?