Weed for normal people isn't a big deal, but weed for people on the cusp of mental illness or even just mental unwellness can exacerbate whatever issue they are facing.

Alcohol on the other hand mostly just knocks you out from doing anything too cerebral after you pass the ballmer peak. I say this as a person who prefers weed to alcohol 100x.

No, the problem here is not being dead drunk and immobile; it's everything before that. Even if you drink strong alcohol, it's going to take a while before you're that intoxicated - in the meantime, you have enough time to vibe-code Windows ME, so to speak (IOW, to drunk drive, throw fists at random people or harass them, get lost and robbed, etc...). People can spend long hours being drunk before collapsing, which is basically begging for trouble, almost no matter what they decide to do during that time.

As for mental health issues worsening due to THC - that's true, but alcohol has a much higher probability of causing or exacerbating such problems. On the other hand, the therapeutic use of THC has seen much better results than alcohol. If both happen to be legal in that jurisdiction, then banning weed but not alcohol really doesn't make sense. Further, even if possession is illegal, smoking itself (without inhaling, or however that went) isn't against the law in many places.

It really just seems arbitrary and strange, unless there was a psychiatric evaluation that we're not aware of, or this happened somewhere where weed is very strictly illegal (think alcohol in Saudi Arabia-level).

> Alcohol on the other hand mostly just knocks you out from doing anything too cerebral after you pass the ballmer peak.

That's pretty minimizing of alcohol's contribution to violent acts (bar fights, escalating disagreements at supermarkets/etc, domestic violence) as well as vehicle collisions.