Let us do a little thought experiment. We shall assume that the prohibition of marijuana is a wise initiative. (I do not believe this to be the case, but that is beside the point for now.) If this is so, and we really believe that the government is merely trying to protect us from inherently harmful substances, it seems unbelievable that alcohol is still legal.

Never mind, for the moment, that the effort to eradicate alcohol - known officially as Prohibition - proved to be a dismal failure. Any rational mind (i.e., a mind as yet unperverted by decades of official drug propaganda) could identify alcohol as a much more insidious drug than marijuana.

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