Alcohol is quite obviously the more dangerous drug and is clearly sold at absurdly high percentages of content, legally, as well.
Ending the prohibition of one and beginning the prohibition of another sounds like an exercise in futility and double-standards.
The alcohol lobby is quite large.
As if there’s no “medical” marijuana lobby, too?
"The book has been denounced as alarmist and inaccurate in the scientific and medical communities because [the author] claims that cannabis causes psychosis and violence; many scientists state that he is drawing inappropriate conclusions from the research, primarily by inferring causation from correlation as well as cherry picking data that fits his narrative, and falling victim to selection bias via his use of anecdotes to back up his assertions."