Facebook and College Admissions

monstor344
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:08:52 +0000

The difference between marijuana and alcohol is that at a certain age. the alcohol becomes legal. The marijuana only becomes legal when its medical (although soon enough in California the bill may pass). I view alcohol as something which needs maturity to be used, as is the reason why there are laws which give ages to do it at. No matter your age, you cannot legally smoke marijuana without medical purposes.

Keep in mind that the only reason for their difference in legality is that prohibition failed as a political and economic experiment. It has nothing to do with it being less detrimental to health than marijuana; on the flip-side, if you read into it you’ll see that marijuana was actually made illegal in part for racial reasons, certainly not because it was wreaking havoc on society like alcohol legitimately was. I think most people would agree that alcohol is by far the bigger havoc-wreaker of the two.

Maturity, at least at a certain point, can control abuse of most substances (including alcohol and cannabis) except the hardest of the hard, which someone mature enough would recognize as verboten anyways and never try. To suggest that alcohol can be handled with maturity and that marijuana, regardless of degree of maturity, cannot be handled with certain restrictions in place suggests that 1) maturity means utter complacency with the law, 2) cannabis is more dangerous, and 3) the law is there to look after and maximize our health, with all of which I cannot agree.