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Alcohol is a bad thing. Drink enough and you can be impaired for a day or even two.

Marijuana, however, impairs a user for weeks. It's use is also tied to the development of schizophrenia and clinical depression.

Equating the two is pointless.

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Both are powerful drugs which, used improperly can lead to serious negative consequences. The difference between them is in legal precedent. Alcohol has always been legal (excepting prohibition which is another great example of the power of precedent), and weed has always been illegal. Logically, neither should be legal, and if introduced now, would never get past the FDA.

[thoughtomator]

..weed has always been illegal.

Incorrect. There was nothing illegal about it until the 1930s, when it was made illegal on the heels of a propaganda campaign connecting it with Mexicans and claiming it caused white women to have sex with black jazz musicians.

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http://www.marijuanaaddiction.info/history-of-marijuana.htm

history of mj

[mugs99]

weed has always been illegal

Weed was legal until 1937. Republicans opposed big government Democrat sponsored cannabis prohibition in 1937.
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[7thOF7th]

Your statement that weed has always been illegal is not accurate. Weed has been used for millennia in many different cultures including American culture. The plant was used extensively for treating epileptics and other ailments for thousands of years.