<p>My friend and I were having this debate: which is worse for you, marijuana or alcohol?</p>
<p>I said alcohol because of liver/brain degeneration, DUI, risk of addiction, etc.</p>
<p>He said marijuana because of brain damage, apathy towards life.</p>
<p>Your thoughts?</p>
<p>Marijuana because it is illegal.</p>
<p>Marijuana is worse for you than alcohol in moderation.
And if you take legal issues (DUI) into account, possession is an offense by itself for marijuana.</p>
<p>Chances are higher that I’ll go to jail for marijuana than for alcohol possession, so I’ll say the latter.</p>
<p>But then again, chances are skewed against me anyway, so does it really matter?</p>
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<p>Eh, really? I didn’t know that. Are you pulling my leg?</p>
<p>Drugs are bad mm’kay</p>
<p>Technically, no one has died from marijuana usage exclusively. I say alcohol.</p>
<p>^^^ You mean the former?</p>
<p>^^^^ Driving with an opened container of alcohol is also an offense. </p>
<p>I definitely think alcohol. It would take one hell of an effort to smoke yourself to death on weed in a well-ventilated room, whereas drinking yourself into a coma is a very real possibility for some. </p>
<p>In moderation over a long period of time, I think the health effects of both are more or less the same to their respective organs. Although, in a worst case scenario, I’d take liver failure over lung and throat cancer any day. I wouldn’t say the same for psychological effects though - being a lonely stoner always short on cash seems far better than being a belligerent alcoholic who beats his wife and kids.</p>
<p>Lol @ apathy towards life being a reason for being worse.</p>
<p>I agree with the OP.</p>
<p>^^From my up-close observations of throat/lung cancer and liver failure, I would take cancer over liver failure.</p>
<p>What do you mean by “worse for you”?</p>
<p>Do you mean which would be worse in terms of body effects, or which would be worse in terms of legal punishment?</p>
<p>Legal punishment:</p>
<p>-Marijuana, because solely being in possession of it is illegal</p>
<p>Physical effects:</p>
<p>-Alcohol, because it can be addicting, unlike marijuana</p>
<p>No doubt alcohol. Death from alcohol is a very real possibility. A drunk person is also much more dangerous than someone high on weed. </p>
<p>And please don’t use the fact that weed is illegal as a reason, because that in itself is an abomination.</p>
<p>It is illegal though (regardless of whether or not it should be legal) and you can go to jail for it.</p>
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Marijuana is so much less harmful than alcohol/tobacco
As far as I’m concerned alcohol/tobacco should be illegal instead of marijuana</p>
<p>Health wise imo: marijuana>alcohol>tobacco. Cigarettes are honestly the worst for your health. Marijuana is illegal, alcohol isn’t until 21, but tobacco is at 18? hmmm…</p>
<p>According to what I saw on Harold and Kumar, marijuana kills :D. I love that scene (does anybody know the one I’m talking about with the commercial where the kid shoots himself?). I don’t want to post a YouTube link because I got an infraction for doing so a few months ago.</p>
<p>^Plus, I don’t think anyone would consume a cockmeat sandwich just to have a whiff of a joint. ;)</p>
<p>^^yeah, I love that movie</p>
<p>alcohol is definitely worse, obviously more dangerous and more killing of brain cells, more dehydration, the killer hangover, and I think you are in less control (well, that depends how much you take of either I guess)</p>
<p>then there’s just how people act, drunks are a wildcard but much more likely to be violent than a pot smoker</p>