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Purely on a logical level, the harmfulness of one thing does not change the harmfulness of another. One thing is very harmful. One thing is somewhat harmful. The very-harmful doesn't negate the somewhat-harmfulness of the other. It simply means they are both harmful in different ways to different degrees.
This is a totally ridiculous comparison, but the "not AS bad for you" statement seems to me a bit of a ridiculous defense, so I'm going to go for it.
Dude A shows up late for work every day for a month. Dude B plays hookey and forgets to call in once. Dude B is probably getting a warning, maybe fired. But that doesn't mean Dude A isn't going to get a talking-to about his chronic tardiness.
I was going to go with murder and rape, but it struck me that those are crack crimes, not pot ones, heh.
(ETA: maybe that was poor humor. I was being glib.)
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