Or their marijuana tax is too high (as it were).

If that's all the tax is meant to do, offset harm. Which is only one small part of the story, I imagine.

I've had a hard time convincing many of fellow Coloradoans of how harmful alcohol is compared to marijuana. It's newly legal, so people fear it more irrationally.

This is what I use to get my point across.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...