Comparison – Alcohol vs. Marijuana

I know more people that have died from alcohol related diseases such as cirrhosis, and drunk driving accidents, than I know that have died from cocaine, marijuana, and opiates combined.

I used to argue with my grandmother, her son a flaming alcoholic, that I'd seen groups of people doing one or the other. I have never seen anyone become violent when under the influence of cannibis alone. Alcohol is involved in most cases of fighting among friends and family. If you add the two influences together, people may argue but violence ususlly disapates before it starts!

There is a provided link to the article this graph is from. It provides answers to most if not all of the questions raised so far.

Read the d@mned article before asking ridiculous questions.
At least skim it!

Did anyone read the article? or are you just criticizing the graph? Simple in design but it proves a point.
Because alcohol is a very bad drug. It has destroyed many villages and lives here in Alaska since it was introduced over 100 years ago. Since then some villages went "dry" where it is totally banned, some is "damp" it is allowed but not sold there and finally "wet" where it is sold.

Seems legit. But I would love to know the source(s).

Who conducted the study? I think it's probably accurate, but what's the source?

Really now who really needs ah graph , Come on you people no matter what you say ALCOHOL is much worst I mean Weed, I never heard of anyone dying from it have you ? All that other stuff is MAN MADE I don't think your hearing me i said MAN MADE the other is simply a plant which man has no control where its grown & thats one of the reasons why it is not LEGALIZED yet , Man thinks like this if you can't control it ban it but let the other stuff which is MAN MADE & which kills & gives you cancer oh yes plus we can make MONEY on it oh yeah let those things go & if people die because if it then OH WELL ! We Got Rich on their deaths !

I am studying behavioral analysis and I have to look at comparison graphs all day. Its a pretty vague graphing system because the numbers are pretty much useless. I see where they are going with this but it makes you think about the research that was conducted to collect these results. How was the study conducted(is there a clear and concise definition of the study objectives?) How many participants were in this study? Furthermore, has this study been replicated and validated? And maybe the overall question is who conducted the studies? All these facts can seriously mislead the consumer into thinking differently.

really great graph. It is kind of misleading though, because it only shows the comparison between all 6, not individually. If you look, there is a 1-6 on all categories. marijuana is 1 on dependence and heroine is 6, which could be misread as " heroine is 6 times as habit forming as cannabis". Just seems an odd way to score things.

What a segway. where should I throw the mud pie?

Alchol is bad - but how many are drinkers to one extent or another? A-lot.
But of course, maybe if all those who hold medical marijuana cards, didn't smoke, they'd be healthy!! -

No? - You aren't saying med mariJ is a complete hoax to have some legal access are you?

They're either sick or not. How come so many are sick - if they're leading such a healthy life-style?

All things in moderation - but that means you hardly ever doing it. You know, leading an actually healthy life-style.
Exercise - clean air - in clean lungs. Food in moderation - but that also means hardly ever doing it (over-eating) which the world is completely addicted to.

We've had to "discover" that less calories (than the face stuffing we've all been raised with) leads to an extended life-span.

Wait-a-minute! - That's because humans hardly ate anything for zillions of years and lived long, healthy lives.

But never-mind, just keep on puffin. And eat ice cream. It's definitely got to be the most healthy thing you could be doin.

Some people need to smoke weed. It'll calm them down and make them think clearly.

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free my hemp already :D

So, the moral of this graph is...

Cannabis is awesome.

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looking at this chart, I cant tell if what's being said is true but I cant help but think of the power of symbolic imagery.

I know that nicotine is the most addictive substance a person can use, more so than heroin. However I am addicted to nicotine and whenever I think of heroin addicts I think of how sad it is that they are so addicted to such a disgusting substance. Without ever recognizing my own addiction to a similarly disgusting substance. Whenever I think of heroin addicts though, I think of dark ally-ways, dirty needles, crazy people and a myriad of other dark thoughts.

I think that flawed logic like this has really skewed our perception of the severity of certain drugs and their repercussions on society. The general public puts so much attention on drugs like meth and heroin, and the allow banes like cigarettes and alcohol fly under the radar.

At the same time people ostracize relatively harmless means of intoxication like Cannabis, DMT and mushrooms.

There are people who would argue that drugs are drugs and we should be able to live without them. This argument is ideal but not realistic. Intoxication is an intricate part of human culture, people have been ingesting mushrooms since before our civilization was even established. In fact some scientists think that humankind found god and spirituality by ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms. Maybe further down the line humankind can find a way to live without intoxication but at this point in time people still feel the need be intoxicated.