Can we please address this issue honestly? What is the difference at this point whether the desire for pot is medical or emotional? Some people use marijuana to control medical symptoms, and some to get high, relax and enhance.

Marijuana has many emotional as well as medical gifts. Alcohol, however, does not, but it is legal to use it for the sole purpose of altering consciousness. Why then do we not legalize pot so that people have a choice of intoxicants? Alcohol is a very dangerous drug, and has been the cause of millions of deaths.

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