I live in Japan. The government, media and schools continue to push the insanity that marijuana is a "toxic" substance. This is in a country where you can buy alcohol in vending machines and there are still TV commercials for whiskey and other "toxic" substances. These, though, are grossly promoted by the media as benign sources of relaxation and pleasure. Hell, the Japanese government still holds around 50% of the tobacco industry. They used to have a slogan (until just a few years ago): smoking clean. What the f_ck does that mean? Recently, though, there has been a lot of bad press about tobacco. As a result, the sales have been decreasing, which has created a growing e-cigarette market. But, or course, marijuana is still "toxic" and you can be incarcerated for decades if you are caught partaking of it. A perfect example of the Drug War Stupidity, eh?
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Truth. It isn't much different here. They usually know better than to say that it is toxic but they come close. The big one that they like to use (which I haven't covered yet) is the gateway drug argument and in doing so they completely ignore the fact the first drug most people use is alcohol. Plus it's a slippery slope fallacy.
Yes, they do ignore alcohol, milk, or even air for that matter. It's all such bullshit and so anal. I'm amazed at how so obsessed some people are to regulate what an individual puts into his/her own body. Mind control by the media is bad enough, but control of our respiratory and digestive systems as well. Give me a friggin' break!
Truth. I actually argued that getting high is a human right in my most recent (steemitzombies) post for that reason.