No way can marijuana be as dangerous as alcohol. Marijuana *prohibition* can be as dangerous as alcohol *prohibition*, but that's not the same thing. It's the prohibition which drives up prices and thus attracts organized crime. If it weren't illegal, it wouldn't cost $400 or $500 an ounce, and organized crime would have no interest in it. Don't see organized crime pushing tomatoes either. What's that old saying, "Those who forget the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them." Or something like that. You'd think we'd have learned from alcohol prohibition and the problems with organized crime during those years, but apparently we have forgotten that mistake and are now repeating it.