Lies About Marijuana Drive People to a Much More Harmful Drug — Booze. Anti-pot propaganda drives most people to drink alcohol instead. But booze is far more dangerous than marijuana. Almost every voter under 65 in this country has either smoked weed or grew up with people who did, Including the last three presidents, one Supreme Court justice and the mayor of the nation’s largest city. The pot leaf’s image pervades popular culture, from Bob Marley T-shirts to billboards for Showtime and the Ohio State Buckeyes. So what the problem with legalizing it. Why haven’t more politicians — especially the ones who inhaled — come out and said, “Prohibition is absurd and criminal. Let’s treat weed like alcohol.”
