No, because prohibition was kind of popular because Americans were drinking ABSURD amounts of alcohol, like an average of 13 drinks a week, or 2.5 gallons of pure ethanol a year. However, prohibition had lots of bad side effects and people decided a government purposely poisoning them for consuming a substance that is as human as farming probably wasn't the right solution.

Nobody thought alcohol was "healthy", and right now, the only people pushing pot as "healthy" are dumb stoners who are just anti-establishment types and think tanks that want to push medical weed as a foot in the door to legalization. It's propaganda basically.

Also isn't this article about SOCIETAL effects of weed, not health effects?