Marijuana is a mind-altering drug. Every user here has admitted it, not me.
Unlike alcohol, one's level of sobriety is decreased at a much faster rate than from alcohol consumption. One has to consume x amount of alcohol before getting drunk. For pot, it just takes one puff.
Not for every kind. Yeah, you might gt a buzz quicker, but your not gonna be anywhere as bad as when your getting drunk. The most that will happen is that you will fall asleep after a while, versus alcohol where you can:
become belligerent
be unable to walk or function properly at all
throw up
piss/shyt yourself
die from alcohol poisoning
cause accidents
(and all of that would happen probably before you even pass out)
As for pot users, I always "read" and "hear" about so-and-so is so successful and they use pot. Well, I've seen plenty of users who were total f-ups. 1. No ambition in life. Hard work ethic is thrown in the bushes. 2. Careless actions like smoking pot around toddlers and infants or smoking pot while driving. 3. points 1 and 2 repeated continually year after year.
It's true...You can say the same about alcoholics though. We've seen plenty of people throw their lives away because of the bottle. Suicide, causing accidents/death from drunk driving, becoming homeless, etc. When is the last time you heard of a suicide victim's body being found with a joint nearby, rather than a BOTTLE? There has never been a death caused by weed...
Most of your points you outlined seem more like personal laziness and shortcomings (don't get me wrong, weed makes some people lazy as shyt, but again, that is their own fault). And don't get me started about alcoholics beating on their kids and shyt...
So, I put pot in the same category as other drugs. That's my POV.
.......bullshyt....
I thought I'd like it more with time, NOPE it sucked almost 100% of the time. 
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