Isn't alcohol worse than marijuana?
543211
yes alcohol is worse than war, smoking and some cancers people actually die more in those groups.
688591
I'm sure the MJ is bad for your health, smoking anything is going to be unhealthy but I'm pretty sure tobacco is worse.  In fact there are a large number of scientist that believe that marijuana is by far the safest illegal drug and is safer then tobacco and alcohol.  Which leaves the question why is marijuana illegal while alcohol and tobacco are legal?  That would take some time to explain.\n\nI've heard that a joint has the same amount of tar as 8 cigerettes, but this is from an anti-marijuana ad which are known to lie or stretch the truth.  What they don't mention is the size of the joint.  They also don't take into account that joints are filterless as well as they are typically passed around in a group.  Cigerettes are typically not passed around and a person will smoke far more cigerettes in a day.\n\nBasically the largest risk of marijuana is accidents or mistakes made because of being high.  An inexperienced user may feel that they are dying but just calming the person down is the best treatment.\n\nIf stuff like this really interest you then I suggest a book for you to look at.\n\n"Buzzed," by Cynthia Kuhn,Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder,Ph.D., and Wikie Wilson,Ph.D.\n\nit contains valuable information about almost every drug you could think of from Alcohol, Caffeine, marijuana, tobacco, etc.\n\nsorry for the long answer but people get the wrong impression of marijuana based solely on the fact that it is illegal
111833
Yes.In my opinion, I think marijuana should be legalized. Have you ever watched the tv show called Cops? How many domestic violence calls have you seen them respond to because someone was high on pot. None that I remember.. Alcohol on the other hand causes most people to become violent,arguementative and has destroyed thousands of families. Most that get into a drunken stuper can't even remember what they did the next day. Marijuana on the other hand causes most people to relax, kick-back, laugh and eat.. They can alsways remember what they did. The only lives I know of that have been destroyed because of marijuana has come about because they got caught using or in posession. Now their life is ruined because they are going to loss their job, possibly their house, cars, kids and anything else the government can figure out a why to make a buck. Hell, someone that smokes a little pot on the weekend can loose their job three or four weeks later if they're drug tested at work. This, even though they aren't under the influence. An alcoholic, who has abused his wife and kids over the same weekend can go to work on monday and pass any drug/alcohol test given them.. Me personally, having spent time with both, I'd much rather spend time with the potheads than the drunken, slobbering loud mouthed alcolohic's.
826153
That is exactly it, it comes from years of the govt educating them that it is harmful, but I see more people die every year from alcohol than I EVER will from weed. People just need to be re-educated.......see people like above don't know anything except the negative "pothead" label. They don't realize that there are MILLIONS of marijuana users who are perfectly fine and very much functioning in society everyday. Many very successful people use it and if everything the govt says about it were true, that would not be the case. There will always be those that can't use it, like there are those that cannot handle alcohol, but that does not mean it should be illegal for all. It has it's uses and it is time that people woke up to the fact that it is MUCH less harmful than alcohol, which by the way, can affect a person with just one drink.
659533
As you probably know, I would choose to legalize POT. I see no harm in smoking one after work instead of drinking one. What the fuck why is pot so wrong and alcohol so right?
142103
Beyond a shadow of a doubt..the pot head.\n\nYour question is biased. An alcoholic is assumed do be pretty deep into the slavery of the bottle. While a drug user could be just about anyone who went to college. Why not a “pot addict” compared to the alcoholic or a casual drinker compared to a casual pot smoker. In my book pot and beer are about the same damn thing. So if it’s a hard spirits kind-a drunk I’d rather be with the stoner. Besides “pot-heads” vomit a lot less than drunks.
1086319
Yes.\n1. As a popular intoxicant, marijuana is much safer than alcohol and other drugs. If Tobacco and Alcohol are available (tolerated by society), then marijuana should also be tolerated. I would much rather have my child abuse marijuana than alcohol, because afterward they would still have a liver and a brain.\n2. All recreational drugs should be legalized. There is no point trying to regulate personal behavior, which contravenes the American ethic anyway.\nCurrent laws do or can provide penalties for intoxicated problem behaviors such as driving under the influence, so that's covered.\n3. If you want to eliminate the crime associated with "the drugs trade", then legalize drugs. If necessary, make various drugs (such as cocaine) available only at the pharmacist's counter with a valid ID as proof of age.\nBut, no more drug kingpins - drugs will be commodified.\n4. Tax drug sales and get those revenues; and save all the money wasted on the drug war.\n\n5. And of course, as a marijuana user, I would look forward to cheaper product. :)
1092829
I think they are both bad....smoking destroys your lungs. Alcohol destroys your liver...stomach and brain. Alcohol killed my mom. What makes Alcohol dangerous is that the disease of alcoholism can be passed down through the generations. I am a recovering alcoholic. My moms brother is an alcoholic. My grandfather was. There is no disease of smoking that passes down through the family trees....but smoking does kill people.
4440
Wow, your message is not a good advertisement for legalizing pot!\n\nBut to answer your question, because they don't get it. They believe that pot is to blame for all drug use and that it leads to harder drugs.\n\nBooze and pot do different things, either one is real bad for you if not used in moderation. Some people are not capable of moderation with the use of their drug of choice.
811243
A very good question. I agree. From what I've read, alcohol is a lot worse that marijuana, both physically and mentally. Alcohol is both a poison and instant brain killer. Now the question of legal vs. illegal - I think that alcohol plays a role so pivotal in America's today's economy that banning it would create so much chaos and objection. So many powerful businesses and individuals will be affected that they will lobby ferociously to stop any attempt to even make alcohol less accessible. It is moral hypocricy, I agree.
740805
Alcohol and I never looked back. Am now a recovering alcoholic and marijuana never entered my mind. The legalization, availability & social acceptance of alcohol makes it a much more threatening problem.
613283
Yes. Alcohol is more volitile than water. It evaporates faster. So if you inhale it it goes directly into your blood stream. The concentration is no so great as drinking it but it does enter the blood faster--instantly. Sort of like somking pot or cigarettes.
856871
You need to check your research (Oh, you didn't do any?  Wow); marijuana is far more harmful than tobacco.  Just the smoke alone is way more detrimental to your body than conventional cigarettes.  And furthermore, pot impairs your judgement; tobacco does not.  Personally I don't care if marijuana is legalized, but to say cigarettes are more harmful is just foolish, which would make sense, since you're a fool.  But why am I even telling you this?  You'll just Best Answer whoever agrees with you the most, regardless of how convincing their answer even is.
805248
haha, i think weeds better than booze, worst thing yo do stoned is want to eat the wallpaper... just kidding... some pot is far mor potent than other, but basicly you fell mellow, almost like before you goto sleep at night, or like when youve had your 3rd beer... just mellow.. till you get the munchies....oh NEVER go shopping when stoned!!  im sooo serious
194155
Both can cause damage to the brain with heavy use over long periods of time, although it's much, much worse with alcohol.  Prolonged alcohol abuse will also damage the liver, while heavy marijuana smoking can cause forms of lung damage also caused by cigarette smoking.  So irresponsible use of either carries some health risk.\n\nBut it's very clear that alcohol abuse is much more likely to cause severe, irreversible, often fatal health effects than even the heaviest use of marijuana.  In theory, marijuana smoking could cause lung cancer in some people, but this is certainly very rare if it happens at all.  In contrast, the number of people in the U.S. who develop dementing brain damage (sometimes called "wet brain") or fatal liver disease, as a direct pharmacological effect of years of heavy drinking, is in the thousands.  Indirect damage (i.e. not pharmacological) to the user or others is also much more frequent with alcohol abuse than with pot smoking, given that alcohol is involved in approximately half of all motor vehicle fatalities, small aircraft crash deaths, drownings, fatal burn injuries, falls, homicides, suicides, and non-fatal injuries as well.  Marijuana smoking may be associated with some number of fatal and nonfatal injuries, but that number is probably very small.  \n\nAs if all that didn't make for a vivid, persuasive comarison favorable to marijuana, its also certain that the amounts of social, psychological, and spiritual damage associated with alcohol vastly exceed those possibly linked to pot smoking. "Reefer Madness" turns out to have been just a bad movie, and I suspect that intelligent space aliens would be astounded to discover a supposedly rational society in which alcohol use is accepted and promoted while marijuana smokers fill up jail cells.  I'm not suggesting, of course, that  there aren't good reasons for discouraging irresponsible use of alcohol OR marijuana by anyone, and children and adolescents should, in my view, be discouraged from using them at all even if both were legal for adults.
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Because people are ignorant about it and think it's worse than legal drugs.  And it's hard to change a moron's mind.\n\nAlcohol:\nDoes more damage to your body.\nCauses more accidents.\nMakes people do angry stupid things.\n\nMarijuana: \nmellows people out.\nMakes people get along with each other better.\n\nThere's really no comparison.
798840
Although I don't support it, the war on drugs is not over, it continues to this day.\nI do think they need to change the definition of illegal substances. Pot is not any more harmful than beer. throwing people in jail for having a small quantity of pot is ludicris. It overcrowds the jails and bogs down the system, it also destroys lives. A person caught with a few grams of pot is considered a criminal like a person caught with a pound of heroin. It's a joke (the war on drugs).