It is definitely more physically addicting. That doesn’t mean all people who use it become physically addictive, but millions do and many can’t even quit cold turkey or they will get something called delirium tremens, otherwise known as the DTs. It’s one of the few addictions that’s fatal to quit cold turkey. Pot doesn’t have much of a physically addictive quality to it. The closest thing I hear to chronic potheads and physical maladies if they quit is some insomnia or some irritability.
It has a far greater psychoactive effect when consumed to excess. To the point where most users who have a BAC of 0.2 or over have difficulty with motor functions. And since when is being drunk illegal?
And not all drugs can be overdosed on, at least to the point of death. The drug we are comparing booze to in this example cannot be.
“It is definitely more physically addicting.”
Again, I disagree. There are many friend and family I know, at least 100, probably lesser acquaintances numbering up to perhaps 500 people, who drink. Two of them that I know of are alcoholics. So I don’t really think it is all that addicting.
The vast majority of people who take in alcohol do not get addicted to it.
Also, quitting the addiction cold turkey certainly can kill you but it does not normally kill you.
I agree that pot is on the lower part of the totem pole in terms of its physically addictive quality. But it is is stupid maker, and that’s where it’s main anti-social quality lies.
Public drunkenness is illegal. You can be arrested for it. Of course operating this or that machinery while drunk is illegal, and caring for dependents when drunk is illegal, and, many positions of work as in the medical profession call it illegal, too.