Explain in detail the differences between Alcohol, Tobacco and Marijuana related to their ability to cause dependency.

Explain your "official response" to the marijuana petitions and how many of the arguments in your response are not also related to tobacco and alcohol which are legal substances. Explain why you can use "Simply put, it is not a benign drug" as an argument against marijuana but not alcohol and tobacco. Explain why alcoholism is tolerated in this country to the extent that anybody over 21 can walk into a store and buy many alcoholic products and yet you deem marijuana to be more dangerous. Explain the reasoning behind allowing alcohol consumption when it is possible to kill someone at any given moment through alcohol poisoning by imbibing too much or through the effects of mixing alcohol and medicines. Explain why these facts are tolerated but the position against marijuana differs.