Alcohol kills brain cells just like marijuana.

Alcohol causes decrease in testosterone production and results in high estrogen count than normal.

Alcohol makes you gain weight simply by drinking it. The carbs from alcohol do not break down into a sugar that is easily available as a fuel source to your body. Therefore typically it all get's stored as fat (this is much more obvious as you get older).

Alcohol will give you hang overs the next day.

There is no 'healthy' way to ingest alcohol. Unlike cannabis.

Cannabis has been proven for medicinal uses for ages. I forget the exact verse, but Moses used an anointing oil for his followers. The main active ingredient for this topical application was cannabis. However the spelling is very different from how it is spelled today. The only alcohol seemingly condoned in the bible is wine.

I know more stoners who make over 100k/year than sober people. Also most of the stoners I know have higher work ethics than sober people. I think it's because we are overall more content/happy due to smoking cannabis over those who don't.

I'm a high paid CCIE. I run circles around all my friends intellectually and financially. No one ever talks shit to me about my smoking.

Like you I find it really helps me be able to absorb information and concentrate. It alleviates my anxiety that I get and I'm just overall a much more social person. People want to be around me. No one ever even knows I'm high unless I tell them.

So tell your friends or team mates to fuck off. Throughout most of the world cannabis is not viewed in such a bad light. It's only here in America where generation after generation have been brainwashed to believe it's bad and that alcohol is far less destructive to your body.

Personally I'd rather spend a night at a small party/gathering smoking some weed than I would drinking alcohol.

Ignore those guys man. You know what's working for you so stick with it.