Alcohol is a very dirty drug. Poison really(as with everything, moderation okay). MJ is so mild by comparison and if our society would get educated about the substance, we will be better off and maybe save/make money by legalizing it. Big Pharma, Phillip Morris, and the Alcohol lobbies will insure MJ remains illegal. Legal substances like nicotine and Caffiene (Thats right, it shuts down one part of your immune system and ups another, creating an imbalance which sets the stage for one of the multiple negative auto immune scenarios to creep in ) are are more harmful on you body chem. than MJ. With that said, I don't think it is a good idea to drink in front of kids or use MJ around kids.