Yeah, I kind of doubt they'll ever make alcohol illegal, but if anyone ever did a true assessment, they'd see that alcohol causes a heck of a lot more harm than cannabis ever has.

Everything I've read confirms what you were saying MacWQ33, that there's more binge drinking now than there used to be. But when I was in high school and college 25 or 30 years ago, there was a lot then, too. We used to drink Everclear and grape juice in high school (I had a fake ID and was so tall I was rarely carded anyway) and in college people were doing funnels and drinking boilermakers and doing shots till they got sick, sick, sick. So it was pretty bad then, too.

Try not to worry too much about lasting damage in yourself. If you're alive and well now, chances are you're fine. Just don't drink yourself to the point of overwhelmingly heavy drunkenness or possible toxicity/poisoning from now on. The good thing about being young is that your liver still has time to repair itself, and with as small a portion of our brains as we really use, mild neurological damage probably isn't going to be an issue, if you even had that, which seems unlikely. Just learn from the past. And definitely keep an eye out on friends who're binge-drinking or running the risk of harming themselves. The far greater danger where kids and alcohol is concerned is still drinking and driving.