Anyone who drinks alcohol, a far more potent and dangerous substance, but opposes legalized marijuana is a hypocrite that deserves to be laughed at and mocked.
One substance is apart of our cultural norm and the other isn’t; but marijuana is a largely harmless drug with many, many medical applications (including getting people off far more dangerous drugs like opioids, antidepressants, etc).
Now don't get me wrong; I'm not a Reefer Madness guy. But there are many users of alcohol who do not wish to be drunk, whereas people who use marijuana wish to experience the chemical high, and that is something different than someone who drinks 1-2 glasses of wine.
This is a perfect example of what happens when you live inside the boomer bubble and your boomer logic has never been questioned. I hear this BS from my older relatives all the time. Guess what? If you are drinking two glasses of wine you’re going to have a good buzz going. What is another word for that? Its called getting high*. And really, two glasses of wine is bordering on drunk. I certainly feel a stronger “chemical high” after two glasses of wine than I do after smoking a bowl. So not only are the people who make this argument hypocrites, they’re delusional as well.
*There didn’t used to be such a distinction between drinking and getting high in popular culture. If you listen to old popular recordings from the 1920’s, 30’s, and 40’s singers refer to drinking alcohol as “getting high” frequently. It wasn’t until later when less socially acceptable drugs began permeating popular culture that a distinction arose between drinking and getting high.
