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Do Harsh Pot Laws Create a Dangerous Drinking Culture? 5 Reasons to Get Stoned Instead of Drunk

source: http://www.alternet.org/story/153870/do_harsh_pot_laws_create_a_dangerous_drinking_culture_5...

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Myths about marijuana convince people that alcohol is safer, but science shows pot is the healthier choice.

Alcohol kills approximately 70,000 people per year. Prescription pills, which have helped overdose become the leading cause of accidental death in America, result in more than 20,000 deaths per year. Marijuana has never killed anybody.

Although scientific research is available to show that pot is relatively harmless, and in fact medically beneficial, myths and propaganda about the plant’s alleged harm lead to marijuana laws so severe they often have the unintended consequence of driving people to drink alcohol, a much more dangerous substance than pot.

Many people do not understand just how harsh some marijuana legislation is. In America, pot possession so minor it is not even a misdemeanor can cause caring parents to lose custody of their children, because welfare offices may charge them with neglect, regardless of how good a parent they are. The legal ramifications of pot use may make parents who want to smoke marijuana more likely to drink alcohol, which is much more likely to create abusive or otherwise harmful behavior.

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5 comments // Do Harsh Pot Laws Create a Dangerous Drinking Culture? 5 Reasons to Get Stoned Instead of Drunk

  • sugarmountian
  • KB723
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • "It is time our laws reflect the facts, and it is an indisputable fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol, both to the user and to society," said Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER and coordinator of the I-100 campaign. "Current laws accept and even encourage the use of alcohol over marijuana, thus pushing people toward using a more harmful substance. Why on earth would we prohibit an adult from making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol in their own home?"

    • 4 months ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • pjacobs51:

      WE wouldn't, but they would because they're too busy promoting a culture
      where money is God, human life is cheap (unless you have mounds of money),
      and a culture of death. All the rational arguments in the world + the truth +
      common sense don't mean a damn to the Prison Industrial complex which
      profits by $ 2.3 Billion ever year from the human suffering it proliferates,
      And from the evil it promotes. Their trolls and institutional parasites who
      won't relinquiish feeding off the USA and it's people until both are dead.
      I enjjoy saying this least of all. But the truth is the truth, and we need to
      see their evil for what it is, no ?

    • 4 months ago
  • remanns
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