LOL, yeah, we probably would just lay there and cry about it, unfortunately. It IS very calming and relaxing, and it mellows us out. But it can also energize. It depends on what kind it is.
Alcohol is terrible for you compared to pot, but I'm not trying to suggest that alcohol should be illegal; simply that it should be if pot is. I don't think ANYTHING should be illegal that doesn't directly infringe on the rights of someone else. If it hurts the individual who's doing it and nobody else, who cares? The government allows you to destroy yourself thru other means. Why can't we choose how we want to kill ourselves? And besides, SOMETHING's gotta kill you, and you can't live forever, so just pick your damn poison, shut up, and let everyone else have theirs too. I don't know why some people are just hell bent on imposing their will on others. Anyway, the reason pot's illegal has to do with controlling mexican immigrants and hemp being a possible competitor of the paper business(made from trees, I mean), and absolutely NOTHING to do with any "harm" it will cause.
The difference between drunks and stoners is it's almost impossible to get into a fight when you're high. You're too lazy, don't give a damn, or you're too busy laughing/thinking deeply about god knows what.
As far as what pot did to you, I have no idea why it would do that. It never happens to me. The ONLY time I"m "paranoid" is when I see cops, and that happens whether I'm high or even doing anything illegal or not.
Yeah, I am told that alcohol attacks every cell in ones body.. and believe me, it does.. Plus, I use to have a very high IQ, was pretty much ready for college classes when I was twelve.... My own house when I was fifteen!! The genius boy who could do all of the math and spell everything and out think or talk circles around people twice my age and beyond..
After all of the drinking I've done, I think that I dumbed myself way the hell down. I have not been good to myself in the past half decade or allowed myself to make very much money or to be very healthy.. I seem to continue with my ability to solve problems for people I care for, but I don't seem to make terribly wonderful choices any more.
They say that weed kills your memory, well I think that nicotine and alcohol together do the same thing.. I can't remember ANYTHING from the past, any more. It's like I'm going through my days as one of those 10 second memory people. It's all still in there, because things from the past will be called up at the strangest times. But I am beyond being able to pull things up at my own will.
It could be because of some rough things from my childhood.. but I think that alcohol+nicotine have had a bad effect on my brain. I'm 100% sure that alcohol has.. I learn now that brain cells do regenerate, but who knows. I've seen the brain scans of a drunk or other drug user compared with a healthy one, and it doesn't look good.
I think that people should have every right to do anything that they want up to the point where it affects others. Just like corporations don't usually have to deal with compensating people for damage done by externalities, a-lot of drug abusers thrust their problems onto the rest of us to deal with.
Even me, the great length I go to in order to NOT be a drain on society won't matter if I ever was forced to have a hospital stay, because I don't have the insurance to pay for it. I've said NO to a few hundred monthly checks I could have gotten from the government, so that makes me feel better. But most drug abusers haven't, and then they STILL expect medical like a god given right.
So to me I think, well, the people absolutely have the right to anything they want, but when there are externalities ... the right isn't there anymore. If a pile of drunks and stoners in this country want to live on government money and health care, they should lose the right to do it.
Does that mean that productive stoners and drunks who pay taxes and insure themselves should be denied THEIR right to do it? Hell no.... But if we end up with it being a majority of them not doing so, then maybe they should
It's a tough decision with no clear cut answer.
It's about rights of the people - but everyone has a different peoples rights in mind
Then you have the issue of everyone screaming about us being a democracy here in our constitutional republic.. In America here the majority isn't supposed to rule an individual or violate his rights. That's why if someone buys all of the property around you, and you're completely surrounded by his land, you are the dominant property with rights to access through his property.
But it again comes back to what one group of people is doing to another.
The stoners and drunks have the right to be that
The rest of everyone has a right to not suffer from it or be affected by it
There really is no answer and I'm rambling at this point
LoL
if you try to take our alcohol - because we're stupid - but potheads would just lay there crying about it 
