which is safer cannabis or alcohol?

Answer 1

I started smoking at 13, drinking at 14. Quit herb at 18 and drinking at 35. At 52 I know far beyond reasonable doubt that anyone smoking anything is an idiot knowing what we know about it now.

Cannabis is a hallucinogen and over time will F you up. Just because it cures nausea for chemo and Aids patients and has some effects with glaucoma does not make it a good choice for recreational purposes.

Drinking in small amounts is fine. Some people can do that some cannot.

You can take the advice of those of us that already screwed the pooch or you can do whatever you want.

I think you already do what you want and are looking for justification.

Choose wisely

Answer 2

Marijuana has 60 active chemicals, called cannabinoids, which appear in different ratios in the material depending on the strain, species and growing conditions of the plant. THC is the most active chemical, ranging from 1% to 20% of the overall cannabinoids in a single plant. Alcohol has one chemical, (Ethenol) which is in a ratio of 0.5 - 80% content mixed in water, which is labeled on the bottle. Ethenol constitutes for 100% of the psychoactive effect in an Alcoholic beverage. Now, lets make some camparisons... Ethenol is "built". The molecule is made in a laboratory to isolate and specify the compounds we want to make us drunk. This is why they can label bottles from 0.5 - 80% in potency. They literally know how much can be put into it to make it a certain way, like adding milk to coffee. Marijuana, techincally has 60 versions of its own "Ethenol", each varying slightly to change the feeling you get. These are completely up to nature, when the plant grows, as to what the ratio will be. You cannot, and will not, ever be able to test the "potency" of marijuana, or what it will do psychoactively if you ingest it, for a few reasons. First, there is no machine or test that can istantly find the concentration of molecules, where a scientist can say "If you smoke this, you wil have a slightly light feeling, an Indica type high with slight hunger stimulation and yadda yadda yadda." They can however, say this: "If you drink 10 shots of 40 proof Vodka, your blood achohol will be *this* much and you will be THIS drunk" ect. To sum this up, marijuana is not a labeled "potency" like Alcohol. So these tests, to be anything accurate, would have to be performed with the same type of marijuana, from the same field, from the same parent plants, from the same strain, from the same method of ingestion all the way down to the same exact dose. This is impossible to the MAX that they have already done this, seeing as marijuana "tests" have been going on since the 60's, I don't think I need to explain how its impossible that they (the various counties around the world governments) used the same batch for every test for 50 years. That's goofy to assume or even try to justify. They have however, used the same compound, Acohol for the last 100 years, which is why the studies on Acohol actually make sense, and you don't hear many conflicting statements about Acohol abuse's possibility. Ethenol, One chemical compound, easy to make in a lab and monitor, and is thus easy to find the truth among studies. Marijuana, has 60 chemical compounds, easy to make but impossible to indentify the ratios in a living, always changing and growing organism - a plant. To sum it up, these studies don't mean anything, and can't ever mean anything since there are over 5,000 strains of weed, and more in the making, and there is only ONE Alcohol, ONE compound and evendently, ONE ANSWER.

Answer 3

Definately weed. If you get too overheated with even just one or 2 drinks in your system, you are all the way f***ked up! Also, alcohol is damaging to your liver, and you can't mix lights and darks without having serious problems. Weed, however, is even safer than cigarettes! The only reason why alcohol is legal is because it can be controlled, unlike weed) government likes to control everything). So, smoke on fellow smokers, smoke on!

Answer 4

Cannabis....Alcohol has fucked up my life. I got 2 DUI's last summer. Plus with cannibis, I never wake up on the bathroom floor of a dennys covered in vomit as I did last friday night

Answer 5

Cannabis. Just read the stats. Alcohol kills.

Answer 6

Cannabis is safer..I've never got in a fight with someone who's stoned.But had plenty of drunken brawls.

Answer 7

Cannabis is safer but it is still an intoxicant.

Answer 8

I was going to answer this question with...alcohol! as some beverages can be beneficial such as red wine (in moderation..of course), but after reading the above answers, my opinion has altered a tad!???

GRRRRR I can't do wacky backy!¦¬| What am I gonna do now if I can't have a lil glass of red????hehehe

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Answer 9

Cannabis, but only just.

Answer 10

One thing is clear, many of you young people are really misinformed about weed. Most of the statistics you are all so quick to cite are pure nonsense.

As bad as inhaling the smoke from burning weeds is it would be much worse if it was legal. The only thing that keeps the numbers down is that many people still obey the law.

If you want to get high nothing I tell you will change your clouded mind but do so without deluding yourself that that stuff is not harmful. It is. Especially among those regular users and long term users.

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