It's easy to legalize something, but it's much harder to illegalize something. Here, alcohol is for example a part of our national food culture. It is a recreational drug used by the vast majority of adults, most who use it just fine (contrary to what Aurora writes, I think most drunks realize they shouldn't be driving). Making it illegal would put just about everyone who runs a pub or similar watering hole out of business and would have consequences for other workers in the alcohol business. It would make a ****-ton of people very unhappy and turn them into potential law breakers in the future, for example from smuggling.
Cannabis on the other hand is not an ingrained part of our culture. Noone here have legit cannabis jobs. You don't go to your local "pot hole" on a night out and it's not part of our food culture. If it was gone, a small minority of people wouldn't get high anymore and some currently criminal people wouldn't make money from it. The consequences would be miniscule compared to the removal of alcohol.
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