[aigel]

The big difference IMHO is that pot is smoked solely to get high. Alcohol in moderate quantities can be consumed with dinner and is considered a food item. Pot is not smoked with dinner, not served at restaurants and has no nutritional value.

Pot is illegal, so it has a lot of problems it can bring to the user. (Possession, drug testing at work, combination of drugs and firearms at home etc.)

Pot being illegal also brings a lot of issues with the manufacturing and distribution. No brewer or vintner make an honest living here: Instead you are looking at drug trafficking, gang violence, illegal pot farms ruining public lands and tax dollars being wasted to try to curb these activities.

IMHO pot should be legalized. Then the situation will be significantly different. But it is like the speed limit. As long as it exists, speeding is illegal and should be avoided. And that's the guidance I'd give my kids as well as anyone looking for MHO.

G