The Danger of Drugs

An interesting analysis of the Lancet study I linked to earlier. A reader states the obvious:

The results seem pretty self evident to me. As someone who has done his fair share of drinking and smoking marijuana, I know which one had significant negative effects if I did too much of it. In short, smoking too much pot just made me sleepy. It never made me emotionally volatile, or had me doing things I regretted the next day. It never caused me to spend hours in the bathroom vomiting. It never left me incapacitated with a terrible hangover the next day.  All of my worst party-related experiences in college were the result of too much booze, not too much pot.

As for gateway drugs, I did cocaine once in my life, over a decade after I smoked my first joint, and, interestingly enough, at the end of a night of heavy drinking.  I never felt the urge to do stronger drugs after smoking marijuana.

What is wrong with our politics that the bleeding obvious has to be denied by almost every single politician?