More than 30,700 Americans died from alcohol-induced causes in 2014. There have been zero documented deaths from marijuana use alone.
Marijuana appears to be significantly less addictive than alcohol.
Marijuana may be harder on your heart, while moderate drinking could be beneficial.
Alcohol is strongly linked with several types of cancer; marijuana is not.
Both drugs may be linked with risks while driving, but alcohol is worse.
Several studies link alcohol with violence, particularly at home. That has not been found for cannabis.
Both drugs negatively affect your memory — but in different ways. These effects are the most common in heavy, frequent, or binge users.
Both drugs are linked with an increased risk of psychiatric disease. For weed users, psychosis and schizophrenia are the main concern; with booze, it's depression and anxiety.
Alcohol appears to be linked more closely with weight gain, despite weed's tendency to trigger the munchies.
All things considered, alcohol's effects seem markedly more extreme — and riskier — than marijuana's.
Too much of anything is bad for us. Period.
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Yet a growing body of research and numerous anecdotal reports link cannabis with several health benefits, including pain relief and the potential to help with certain forms of epilepsy. In addition, researchers say there are many other ways marijuana might affect health that they want to better understand.
Along with several other recent studies, a massive report released this year by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine helps sum up exactly what we know — and what we don’t — about the science of weed.
Marijuana can make you feel good.
In the short term, it can also make your heart race.
Marijuana’s effects on the heart could be tied to effects on blood pressure, but the link needs more research.
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Which is worse for me...hitting myself in the head with a hammer, or stabbing myself in the stomach with a knife.
What if I do both? Does one cancel out the other?
Cops will kill you for marijuana.
I’ll agree, though with the caveat that for those who have no problem keeping their drinking moderate, moderate pot smoking I think is worse than moderate drinking, because the effects of pot smoking are longer lasting.
Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana. Trying to normalize it’s use is a fatal mistake.
Never mind that If one uses either they tend to use both anyway.
I'll pass.
Keep adding poisons to our culture, because “they’re no worse than....”
Alcohol is GOOD for you, not “bad.” In moderation it has numerous beneficial effects. Whatever you say about cannabinoids, if you are SMOKING pot, it is unhealthy, as you are breathing in several toxic and carcinogenic substances. Eating it is another matter.
This is a lie. People get killed stoned and driving all the time.
More stoner science.
Anyone who has lived with a weed addict knows exactly what it does. Even with a bong, the fan to blow the smoke out the window was covered in sticky resin. Both of them were coughing up blood by the end of the semester. That may be better now that weed is so much stronger.
often people who are said to be "drunk" are also high on weed or drugs...
weed is insidious....you never even realize as you sloth thru life until the day when you realize you've wasted your school, your marriage, your life...
alcohol is upfront and personal..
if a person is drinking too much you know it...the look, the smell, the speech, etc..
weed..not so much...it is sneaky..so while its affecting your mind you can muddle thru until you make a mistake or fly a plane into the ground...
Jesus made water into wine...
enough said...
I’ve said it for a while now.
Pot is the lesser of these 2 evils.
and shall we ban alcohol now?....
BFL . . . . Drugs & Alcohol . . . . whooo-hooo.
Which is worse, being shot with an “assault rifle” or having six ribs broken and severe lung damge caused by your far left lunatic neighbor?
Another stupid example of bad research.
Where’s the control group?
What about folks who do neither?
If group A gets symptoms 1-4, group B gets 5-9 but group C gets none of the above then why even discuss A and B?
The premise that A is better than B but C is better than both A or B, results in the outcome that Alcohol and MJ are to be avoided.
Geesh.
Do (pot) illicit drugs or drink if you wish, but I think and believe that when you hurt or kill under the influence and in violation of law, once the state proves your culpability and or guilt, the victims’ nearest relative gets to stick a 22 pistol into your ear and fire one shot.... ( yeah, the avenger of blood thingy works for me).
Research without a proper methodology and premise is just politics.
So if I walk down the street smoking a cigarette the bodies stack up like cord wood from second hand smoke but smoking weed has no effect on my lungs/arteries/cancer. CMON!
With years of previous experience with BOTH, I can tell you that WITHOUT QUESTION, Alcohol is FAR worse. I would guess by at least a factor of TEN!
Not promoting pot, but alcohol should be the priority not weed.