I perfectly understand your point, and part of the fact that weed is not legal is only because to this day we are still battling against 100 years worth of ideas ingrained in society , even more damaging are just those notions we can not rid from only 60 years ago .

I tend to mind my own business and if you don't want to drink good for you, but if I like to drink then I will the rules are simple for me I do not affect any other person with my actions and leave them be , I expect the same from others.

As everything these days we have the ability to convert it into a drug regardless of what it is, no wonder you have shit movies like fifty shades of grey , that is someones drug whether they drink or not .

Now that same person we say drink, and from my point of view if they watch that and think it is the greatest thing ever most likely have suppressed tendencies , assuming the general population who only care for missionary.

So now they drink and we will say it is a dude because obvious. He gets ideas and the wifey does not like those ideas much. He is drunk and not able to impose common sense . You can guess what is next.

Now although alcohol is socially acceptable and mostly encouraged where something like smoking may not even be advertised , that barely is the problem.

People are the problem , people and all their feelings, wants and false needs. You can remove alcohol and next week they will drink cow piss if it works. Yes you are perfectly correct about alcohol but you did not account for what a wretched society we are in general , alcohol is just the excuse.

-- this is my personal opinion although in rant form and although you may not agree with my spur of the moment view, this will remain my view within context--