[MrLeRoy]

I'm arguing that alcohol has a significant history in the medical area, yet you're not interested in that history?

Should I be? If so, why?

(And have you abandoned your claims about the current medical significance of alcohol?)

[robertpaulsen]

See my post #4. Alcohol has a history of use in the US (add cooking, an area I forgot), whereas marijuana doesn't.

The author is attempting to ignore that by placing alcohol and marijuana on equal historical footings with his sentence, "Pretend for a minute that humankind had not discovered alcohol until Drexel distilled it in 2000".

Not the same.