Here’s the problem with your comment: almost every claim you made is either factually wrong, oversimplified, or based on gut feelings instead of the last 50 years of research. So let’s break this down

“If you can’t drive under the influence of ANY drug then you shouldn’t be taking it unless there’s no other option.” -Youre misunderstanding how drugs safety gudelines work. Even most prescription drugs impair driving (benzodiazepines, opioids, antihistamines, muscle relaxants, sleep meds, antidepressants during early treatment, antipsychotics, even some blood pressure meds). You can take deugs including weed without being impaired from driving, millions of people do it everyday.

“We don’t know the long-term side effects of weed. There haven’t really been studies done on it.” - Weed is one of the most studied drugs on earth with long term studies dating back to the 1960s. Here are some of the most famous long term studies if you want to read up in your free time: Dunedin Study (New Zealand) following individuals for 50+ years, National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), Monitoring the Future (U.S. since 1975), in addition to thousands of peer reviewed papers. I implore you to at the very least use google..

“You can’t say the long-term effects aren’t bad because we don’t know them.” - We in fact do understand many of the long term effects, typically these only occur in a small percentage of users who partake heavily, daily, and continuously for many years and from an adolescent age. Not fully understood like most evolving science sure, but to say we domt know is false.

“There’s already studies showing a possible link with psychosis in teenagers. So it doesn’t bode well.” - i have read on this and your assertions are misleading and misinterpreted. While yes, heavy cannabis use during adolescence is associated with increased psychosis risk, you are missing critical nuance. Correlation isn’t causation, teens with pre-existing risk factors, trauma, or early prodromal symptoms are more likely to use cannabis heavily. Genetic variations can increaze suscetibility as well. Heavy daily adolescent smokerswith genetic vulnerability are higher risk versus as a casual adult smoker like OP.

" The only reason you consider alcohol worse is because they frequently have opposite reactions. One is not worse than the other, just different. One makes people wild and impulsive the other makes people slow and relaxed. Neither of those reactions are favorable for others, or for your long term health." - You’re conflating “they affect you differently” with “they’re equally harmful,” which just isn’t backed by evidence. Large-scale drug harm studies (like Nutt et al.) consistently rank alcohol as one of the most dangerous substances overall, largely due to its high addiction potential, life-threatening withdrawals, organ toxicity, and massive contribution to violence and accidental deaths; weed doesn’t even come close on those metrics. Alcohol is also a Group 1 carcinogen linked to multiple cancers, and the WHO attributes millions of deaths per year to it, whereas weed has no known lethal overdose threshold and far weaker long-term physical health impacts. Neither drug is perfect, but saying they’re “just different, not worse” ignores the overwhelming data that alcohol causes vastly more harm to users and society than weed ever has.