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It's funny how alcohol is objectively the far more dangerous and destructive drug, yet weed gets treated more harshly. Disclaimer I drink but don't smoke, so

by eloff 7y ago

It's funny how alcohol is objectively the far more dangerous and destructive drug, yet weed gets treated more harshly. Disclaimer I drink but don't smoke, so if anything I'm biased against my point.

rtkwe 7y ago
Alcohol had a very long history and entrenched industry behind it where (as far as I know) weed didn't have any thing of the sort. Old shitty things that people are used to often get overlooked and a big enough portion of the population were already drinkers so when there was a push to prohibit alcohol similar to weed there was a bigger push back.
- eloff 7y ago
  Yeah, I agree that's the reason. Alcohol is common place enough that people don't even regard it as a drug. And it goes back thousands of years, so it's long been part of society. Still it's a blatant example of how illogical us humans are.
  - rtkwe 7y ago
    To be a bit fairer back when weed was demonized then scheduled alcohol was going through a similar attack. It was just way more popular than marijuana which was mainly introduced as a recreational weed in the beginning of the 20th century according to this PBS [0] piece. [0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron...
CharlesColeman 7y ago
> It's funny how alcohol is objectively the far more dangerous and destructive drug, yet weed gets treated more harshly. There's also the angle that weed is federally illegal, so smoking it demonstrates an attitude that compliance with rules is optional and subject to personal judgement. Someone with that attitude is probably more likely to choose to not comply with security procedures or secrecy commitments.
- eloff 7y ago
  There's probably something to that.
- blamarvt 7y ago
  If a CEO posted a video on their way to work and breaking the speed limit would it have the same effect?
  - fargle 7y ago
    It definitely would. It would display some kind of arrogance and rule-flaunting. Not just regular-joe speeding. So yes, it would be viewed very negatively by both clearance and wall-steet. It's just poor judgement. To have a mistress is fine. To get caught in a public spectacle is bad judgement.

by eloff 7y ago

It's funny how alcohol is objectively the far more dangerous and destructive drug, yet weed gets treated more harshly. Disclaimer I drink but don't smoke, so if anything I'm biased against my point.

rtkwe 7y ago

Alcohol had a very long history and entrenched industry behind it where (as far as I know) weed didn't have any thing of the sort. Old shitty things that people are used to often get overlooked and a big enough portion of the population were already drinkers so when there was a push to prohibit alcohol similar to weed there was a bigger push back.

eloff 7y ago
Yeah, I agree that's the reason. Alcohol is common place enough that people don't even regard it as a drug. And it goes back thousands of years, so it's long been part of society. Still it's a blatant example of how illogical us humans are.
- rtkwe 7y ago
  To be a bit fairer back when weed was demonized then scheduled alcohol was going through a similar attack. It was just way more popular than marijuana which was mainly introduced as a recreational weed in the beginning of the 20th century according to this PBS [0] piece. [0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron...

CharlesColeman 7y ago

> It's funny how alcohol is objectively the far more dangerous and destructive drug, yet weed gets treated more harshly. There's also the angle that weed is federally illegal, so smoking it demonstrates an attitude that compliance with rules is optional and subject to personal judgement. Someone with that attitude is probably more likely to choose to not comply with security procedures or secrecy commitments.

eloff 7y ago
There's probably something to that.
blamarvt 7y ago
If a CEO posted a video on their way to work and breaking the speed limit would it have the same effect?
- fargle 7y ago
  It definitely would. It would display some kind of arrogance and rule-flaunting. Not just regular-joe speeding. So yes, it would be viewed very negatively by both clearance and wall-steet. It's just poor judgement. To have a mistress is fine. To get caught in a public spectacle is bad judgement.