Alcohol is adored by billionaires and bellhops. Says stock1829, yes you are right, but it's happened because of advertising. Alcohol was advertised in the movies ,billboards ,TV and radio.
Marijuana on another hand was portrayed as a getaway to the hard drugs.
Everybody drinking alcohol was exposed to it as a child or young person.
If we calculate alcohol damage to the society, aggressiveness, mental disease, impact on health, marijuana wins.
ps. I'm not a fan of either of them.