One could make an argument that the plant was being consumed before the fermentation process of alcohol was widely accepted and therefore in your current timeframe and knowledge it is more widely used but at one time there were more people consuming weed than alcohol.
Wait until you meet a guy that smokes weed!!! Good chance that you were out in public today or even at your place of work and had no idea that 40 percent of those people smoke weed. There are bad actors on all sides, including hunting, that give a whole subset of the population a bad name...
If this conversation wasn’t on a public forum we could have an honest discussion about different substances and their uses. Because of certain laws that conversation still can’t be had because of legality issues.
Libertarian to the core here, keep the gobmn’t cheese outtta my life and you do you!