In your opinion, which is more detrimental to one's health -- marijuana or alcohol?

Answer 1

Alcohol!!!! marijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this.

What many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.

The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

Due to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.

Marijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidelines this can be dangerous. Not to mention the fact that we have no way we can afford to throw all those people in jail. Its much less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal, so doesn't it make sense that it would be also?

Answer 2

Well, considering how many people die in car accidents due to alcohol, as well as liver damage, I'd say that booze is more detrimental to your physical health.

However, excessive pot use can cause depression, short-term memory loss, and generally put's your mind in neutral. And while alcohol has its own negative effects, I think pot is just a bit more detrimental to ones mental health.

Answer 3

Probably alcohol. Yeah pot smoke can lead to cancer and some people say it makes you dumber if you use it a lot, but alcohol has some real problems.

First of all, it definitely makes you dumber if you over do it. Some alcoholics even get Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome where you lose your memory and spend the rest of your life making things up. It is very bad for your liver (cirrhosis), pancreas (pancreatitis), and heart (myocarditis).

Another thing: It's very hard to quit. In fact, it's easier to quit heroin and cocaine that it is to quit alcohol. You are very unlikely to die form stopping cocaine or heroine but if you quit drinking without supervision of a health-care provider, You could get Delirium Tremens (DT's) and die. You would begin to hallucinate and tremble and then go into seizures and have outrageously elevated blood pressure. I'm pretty sure nobody ever died from quiting pot, although I'm sure plenty of people would die before they quit.

Hey, pot's not great either. It gives cancer, makes you act like a jackass instead of doing important things, and it clouds your judgment. But alcohol is probably worse.

Answer 4

Alcohol, but really it depends on how much you use either one. Long term use and abuse of alcohol can cause liver damage, loss of brain tissue, and many other serious diseases (not to mention alcoholism). Long term use and abuse of marijuana has serious health consequences too, but they are less severe. There is short term memory loss and some chance of lung cancer (although studies have shown that the chance of getting lung cancer from marijuana use is less likely than from cigarette use). The bottom line is that if used in excess, both drugs are bad for your health.

Answer 5

I would have to say that alcohol would be worse. Based on the fact that on average, people who drink, use alcohol much more often than people who use marijuana indulge themselves. So, it's relative to use. If you were to use either equally over a period of time, alcohol would cuse more long term damage.

Answer 6

Alcohol. And detrimental to others around it.

Answer 7

both.

however, both taken in small doses actually cure some problems. for instance, miniscule intakes of alcohol (mostly, people drink wine) can actually improve the functioning of the liver. marijuana is also good for your heart if it's used as medicine.

otherwise, both have a negative impact. alochol causes failure of many vital organs, and marijuana really jacks up your brain.

Answer 8

You can drink too much in 1 night and die from alcohol poisoning. You can be a stoner for the rest of your life and never accomplish anything.

Answer 9

alcohol- probably more detrimental to others health as well

Answer 10

Alcohol if your driving , marijuana is you are to stoned to go to work. I have never seen a stone person get violent.I have seen drunks commit felonies.