As a consumer of both, I believe the people that think pot is a personality and vomit pseudoscience really do a disservice to all the other regular folks who also use cannabis. Not that alchohol doesn't have comparable types ("I can't drink so much without feeling it!"), it has just been socially acceptable for a longer period of time.

Idk. I work with a both bunch of sad old drunks and several stoners. The old drunks are in way way worse shape than the old stoners. They can look down like that all the want but their sad old ladies are behind them crying for sure.

Both alcohol and weed are the only pain management some people have access to.

At least my liver's not going to resemble a tryptophobia trigger image by the time I'm 40. 'Sides, actively growing my own instead of just buying it gives me a reason to get out in the dirt and sun, and actually give a damn what kind of soil goes into my garden box.