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I like alcohol, but it is ridiculous to have alcohol being legal and weed illegal. Mainly there is just one reason for it - the alcohol lobby is way way stronger.

There are a ton of gray areas when discussing the tobacco vs. alcohol debate. Firstly when speaking of alcohol "users", 99% of people who drink aren't alcoholics and will probably never will suffer any long term negative effects. It will mostly be the 1% of "users" who abuse alcohol who end up suffering. Now flip that over to tobacco and you can't really look at it the same way. People who smoke do so frequently and obviously that is what makes it so harmful. If someone smoked 1 cigarette a week they would probably more like the group of people who have a drink or 2 a week.

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For what it's worth Dr. Sanjay Gupta has changed his stance on weed and is now in favor of it being used in treatment of certain diseases.

8 of 10 drinkers are willing to drive after two, three, even four beverages...and that is crazy risky.

Made up figure, but I think it's true.

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Yes, obviously I pulled 1% out of my ass but my point nonetheless is that you can't lump all people who drink vs. all smokers. There really isn't a very good apples to apples comparison.