Which is worse for your health? Smoking cannabis (skunk) every day, or drinking a lot of alcohol every day?

Answer 1

Before picking ask yourself which you like less, your lungs or your liver. After you pick have fun and die young!

Answer 2

I am a substance abuse counselor of 8 years and a recovering addict of 20 years. The first question, the facts about pot: it IS addictiive. How one can determine if they are addicted is by trying to stop. When one withdraws from the substance , various symptoms will be noted. Insomnia, apathy, irritablity. Some tremulousness as well is an indicator. Next question about damage. Of course there's the genetic damage. Then there's the anhedonia,inability to experience pleasure. Memory loss which is irrepairable. No, it's not O.K. to smoke pot, even if it isn't everyday. Anymore than it's O.K. to self medicate with any other addictive substance. I also teach D.U.I. school. So about smoking and driving, The legal consequences are exactly the same. However, when the court orders random urinalysis, pot could tale as long as 30-45 days to be out of the urine.

Answer 3

I know someone who is currently in rehab suffering the effects of long term smoking of skunk. It's like watching someone with severe mental illness. The paranoia and the outbursts are awful. I cannot even explain what it is like to watch someone who was perfectly normal before turn in time into a wretched mess. This person is now so paranoid that they want to kill themselves because they can't take it anymore.

I also know someone who is an alcoholic. They have no family left, no life and everything revolves around getting a drink. They too have gone slightly mad, are totally untrustworthy and on the verge of extreme illness.

Out of the two, I wouldn't want to be either. There symptoms and problems are different but ultimately both there lives are tragic and as good as over.

If you are asking this question because you are considering either, then do yourself a favour.......... don't.

You can't miss something you never had.

Answer 4

They are both horribly bad for you. What a silly question. Thats like saying, "I want to screw up my life, but which thing will ruin my life at a slower rate."
Here is something to think about seriously. I am a corporate recruiter, I hire people for a living. And I can tell you this. For liability reasons, more and more successful corporations are going to a policy where they wont hire anyone with any sort of drug conviction on their record. Ive had to turn down people with MBAs, just because when they were 18 they got busted with a little pot. We live in an information age and everyone is getting a electronic paper trail of everything they do. Think about it. Is that little pot high really worth you not getting a great job 5, 10 or 20 years from now? Here is the thing, if you keep using, you WILL eventually get busted for it.
Like I said, the reason companies are creating these policies is because of LIABILITY. Face it, we live in an age where people sue large corporations for anything. A person with a criminal/drug record creates a paper trail and that paper trail creates a liability for the company. If anything ever went wrong with that employee, lawyers could have a feild day because the corporation hired someone with a KNOWN drug history. Unfortunately for our young people this is only going to get worse for them as more an more companies adopt these policies.
The solution is to do what Im doing. Warn your kids and young people that the choices they make when young can and WILL come back and haunt them.
Good luck.

Answer 5

Drinking lots of alcohol everyday for sure!!!!
Don't believe all the people who said opposite. They are cannabis hatters and are very against it. You never hear of people dying from smoking too much weed but you hear about people with liver problems because of too much drinking.

Answer 6

What's worse depends on your genetics and whether you'd prefer risking your lungs or your liver. I personally think that uncut weed might be better when you consider other things. If you're stoned, you're bound to laugh a lot and go to sleep. People who are drunk tend to do things like believe they can drive perfectly, beat up that bloke over there or shag without a helmet. Very very risky.

Answer 7

Drinking alcohol is worse than smoking pure canabis.

Smoking canabis as skunk is more dangerous than either.

Don't confuse smoking pure canabis with smoking skunk. Skunk is a nasty, nasty mix of canabis and whatever the dealer feels like cutting into it. It's massively addictive and gives you nasty personality disorders. Stay away from it.

Answer 8

i'm not saying drinking alcohol is definitely good , but it's up to how much u drinking,cos also doctors say a glass of wine is also good for health for example
so i think smoking cannabis is worse

Answer 9

i think they are both as bad as each other! the effects have oppisite effects but can both can cause trouble..
such as alcohol could make ya violent or making you do something you wouldnt normally do such as sleep with a minger or offend some etc
weed makes ya not with it and paranoid! not good if ur wit loadsa ppl!
i personally think they are both good tho... under infulence of nboth at the mo LoL!
weed will just kill ur brain cells so u dont remember much and alcohol with also give u memory loss and **** ur liver up.
both can end up with serious problems but dont everything? too much caffine, sugar, nicotine... the list goes on!

Answer 10

Too much of anything is bad for you, the weed can cause mental problems in some people and the booze will rot your liver eventually.So in answer to your question, it depends on how much you consume and whether you can handle it.
Bear in mind females cannot drink as much alcohol as males because of their different anatomies.

Answer 11

Smoking & drinking lots of alcohol are not what your body wants you to do. Both are just as bad I'd say.