Or rather, one makes you act without thinking, the other makes you think without action.

They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you’re high, you can do everything you normally do just as well—you just realize that it’s not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.

- Bill Hicks

The drunk driver runs a stop sign and the high driver waits till it turns green.

One has also had studies that shows it causes the user to have more empathy while under its influence. The other is more common in domestic violence.