Best Posts in Thread: What is worse, Marijuana or Alcohol?

One time I injected 7 marijuanas and I woke up naked and 10 miles from my house.

 

I say mix them together and enjoy the ride.

 

Ever heard of alcoholism?

 

Long term, alcohol. One time, marijuana.

Also, marijuana has no addictiveness.

 

Alcohol is far worse in my opinion for a few reasons.

1) The potential to develop an addiction, a potentially life crippling one.

2) Driving while intoxicated on alcohol, compared to under the influence of marijuana, leads to significantly more deaths.

3) Associated costs of our heath care industry to care for those who have done permanent damage to themselves, and organs, from the use of alcohol.

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Not necessarily to counter your point, but to add context; this depends on the situation. My mother who suffers from celiac sprue often does not feel hunger, and without constant attention; doesn't eat. She has trouble maintaining 100 lbs consistently, marijuana has been critical in her ability to feel hunger, eat, and gain weight.

Obviously this is not the norm.

 

This is bad advise.

 

You can get addicted to anything. It doesn't have to be a drug or alcohol. It's the type of addiction.
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It's not necessarily that your body doesn't want to let it in. It gets used to it, and soon you need more and more to be able to feel the rush. It's like if you have to take any sort of prescription medication or OTC meds for being sick or headaches. Soon, you need more than normal because your body is just too used to it.
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I personally think marijuana is worse because it affects your breathing and the health of your lungs. Alcohol depends on the type and how much of it over a certain period of time. I have an alcoholic neighbor with 2 really little kids and it's just scary to think that he needs at least 4-8 beers a week and 2-3 servings of a harder alcohol a week to just make him be "okay." Not really sure though.

 

The science seems to say alcohol, but marijuana isn't subject to enough study, because of the law.

 

You can also obtain a "high" from eating a brownie so the method of delivery is important.

Ummm, no.... that's not how it works at all.

I agree with your statement but you can have marijuana in different forms that wouldn't require you to smoke it (edibles).

People have lived to be 90+ years of age and smoked like a chimney, that's not to say it is bad but I assure you anyone that drinks more than 4 drinks a day don't live that long. Anyhow, you can simply have an edible and it spares you the lung damage.

Although this is how MI's usually are caused they can actually happen without any of those conditions, a perfectly healthy 20 year old can have a freak episode of a heart attack. I'm not saying what he said is true but all those conditions would cause a typical heart attack but there are certainly odd cases of them.

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I have smoked and drank in my lifetime and I can say 100% smoking isn't as bad in terms of "impairment". Motor skills are not as impaired when compared to drinking. High people tend to be mellow while some people that are drunk may get violent. It's really up to the person but I honestly think marijuana is given an unfair name and people demonize it for no good reason. Anything in excess is bad but "weed" is definitely healthier than drinking. Alcohol is a toxin after all.