Pot v. Alcohol

People have read my chapter on Pot v. Alcohol and had many takes on what I was trying to say. I have never used pot. However I have seen the impact of alcohol and pot on our society for 21 years. Knowing the reality that I saw, versus the reality that is portrayed by the media, I decided to support an alternative view on alcohol and pot.
Pot really does not have the negative impact on our society that alcohol does. My data was from cites like the CDC. They would give statistics on alcohol that were grim, such as:

Number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 21,081

Number of alcoholic liver disease deaths: 12,548

This statistic is just from one year of data. The data on Pot collected from government agencies supports the fact that Pot is not detrimental like alcohol. Why do we not discuss this?

The American Journal for Public Health furthers the discussion about alcohol by analyzing the impact alcohol has on violence.

• Alcohol availability is closely related to violent assaults. Communities and neighborhoods that have more bars and liquor stores per capita experience more assaults. ¹

• Alcohol use is frequently associated with violence between intimate partners. Two-thirds of victims of intimate partner violence reported that alcohol was involved in the incident. ²

• In one study of interpersonal violence, men had been drinking in an estimated 45 percent of cases and women had been drinking in 20 percent of cases. ³

• Women whose partners abused alcohol were 3.6 times more likely than other women to be assaulted by their partners. ⁴

• In 2002, more than 70,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 were victims of alcohol-related sexual assault in the U.S. ⁶

• In those violent incidents recorded by the police in which alcohol was a factor, about nine percent of the offenders and nearly 14 percent of the victims were under age 21. ⁷

• Twenty-eight percent of suicides by children ages nine to 15 were attributable to alcohol. ⁸

• An estimated 480,000 children are mistreated each year by a caretaker with alcohol problems.

The data is accurate and strongly supports my assertions in the book.

Marijuana as an illegal drug has been enforced unfairly in our country. The statistics come from our own government data bank. My feeling is if a law is unjust, than why should we not abolish the law.