What's worse alcohol or marijuana? Do you use either one?
360881
Neither one is good for you.  Alcohol attacks your liver and smoking anything damages your lungs.  Excess use of either will decrease your mental faculties.  Alcohol is legal and it's production is regulated however which makes it very unlikely that you will get Alcohol contaminated with any sort of toxic foreign substance, nor will you be arrested for using alcohol within established laws.  Marijuana is illegal to produce and posess and so their is absolutely no way to insure it's quality or purity.  Personally I drink alcohol occasionally (Red Wine, Beer, and scotch are favorites) and in moderate amounts.
6144
It is far safer than drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco.  Alcohol and tobacco are physically addictive, and both are lethal in high doses; marijuana is non-toxic and not physically addictive.\n\nThe biggest danger from marijuana is the legal threat.\n\nThere is no good reason for it to be illegal, none whatsoever.
619913
If it were treated like alcohol in terms of age restrictions and enforcement, and banned in public so the rest of us don't get your second hand smoke (including in 'just outside the building' corridors of smoke), I don't really care.  I don't think it is worse than alcohol, and it may be better for you. I'd let science decide on that point.
504301
I would cancel the law that made marijuana illegal.  It has so many beneficial uses for cancer patients, anorexics, and people who suffer from other ailments.  It's a shame that truly sick people have to buy it off of the black market just for some relief.
869480
I will tell you this. I do not believe that marijuana is as bad as "they" say it is but, when I smoked it took away my ambitions in life.  I wanted to have a degree in Paramedic medicine but I chose to smoke.  Do I love the feeling,yes.  Do I regret starting, not really but there wil always be someone to complain no matter what the topic is.  It is in their nature.  The common feeling is the feeling you want to sleep and you eat everything in sight.  If you decide to try it then I suggest you make a very serious decision as to what you will do with the rest of your life, because I know there are celebs that smoke but with money comes power and leniency.  As for us common folk we dont get the same breaks and we are the ones that face the consequences for what they can buy their way out of.  I still smoke by the way and I would do that before I would ever take a drink of booze.
847147
Alcochol and cigarettes are both pretty bad, I've had family & friends die from both of those.....but no "marijuana" related deaths....go figure....the legal ones kill.....
711842
My best friend and I have this conversation quite often. It doesn't make much sense to me either. Cigarettes cause emphysema, bronchitis, lung cancer, etc. As far as alcohol goes, how many people have killed others while driving drunk? Not to mention alcohol poisoning, liver damage, stomach problems, etc. Yet, weed, the most harmful of the three is the only one illegal. Someone should explain that to me......
23242
Yes, the health effects of marijuana are no more harmful then tobacco and alchohol.  Personally i would much rather deal with people that are high, then people who are drunk
273431
Before I start, let me mention that I have not smoked marijuana in many years, but have certainly had my share of alcohol.\n\nMarijuana prohibition is idiotic, born out of ideas, fear, and propaganda from a time long ago.  It is safer than alcohol by far, and is only frowned upon because of the legality and social stigma placed upon it.  No one has ever died from marijuana poisoning, or pot withdrawal, yet both of these things happen with alcohol on a daily basis throughout the country and the world.  Riots are not started by folks who are stoned, but violence and drunkenness go hand and hand.\n\nIf the drug were made legal, it could be taxed and regulated just like tobacco or booze.  Legalization would free up space and court resources for real criminals, saving the taxpayers money and getting more dangerous folks off the street.  It's a crime that this drug is treated like a dangerous, physically addictive drug, and it shouldn't be a crime to do it.
1008695
My personal OPINION...I would rather my friends, family, children or anyone else to smoke weed than to drink alcohol.  Most people don't understand weed...it's not  a drunk...it makes you eyes red yeah...but it doesn't impair you like alcohol...so YEAH..if my kids are going to do something...go for the WEED!
247643
Sorry, but I think beer sucks.  I stick with hard liquor.  Maybe that's why you're dealing with eggnog as washer fluid and I'm dealing with urine-saturated clothes closet.  Damn you for turning me onto St. Uhro's Day right before St. Pat's Day.  I think I have what little brain matter left is leaking out my ears.  They say drinking and smoking pot kills brain cells, and I say only the weak ones.
1153668
I think it is something that needs to be done.  We have all sorts of highly addictive and dangerous drugs that are legal-vicodin, percoset, oxycotin....It may take longer for it to be legalized for recreational use, but is it really any worse than alcohol?  I know of MANY more lives ruined by alcohol than marijuana.
856871
You need to check your research (Oh, you didn't do any?  Wow); marijuana is far more harmful than tobacco.  Just the smoke alone is way more detrimental to your body than conventional cigarettes.  And furthermore, pot impairs your judgement; tobacco does not.  Personally I don't care if marijuana is legalized, but to say cigarettes are more harmful is just foolish, which would make sense, since you're a fool.  But why am I even telling you this?  You'll just Best Answer whoever agrees with you the most, regardless of how convincing their answer even is.
773332
Marijuana or magic mushrooms
740805
Alcohol and I never looked back. Am now a recovering alcoholic and marijuana never entered my mind. The legalization, availability & social acceptance of alcohol makes it a much more threatening problem.
557589
It's more addictive than alcohol, but I'm not too keen on alcohol either.  I say that because recent research has shown that more people ADMIT THEMSELVES for marijuana treatment now than for alcohol!  Why do they say "it's not addictive?"  It's making a fine distinction.  Weed is not PHYSICALLY addictive, but it is for dmn sure PSYCHOLOGICALLY addictive.  The new info just shows how ignorant we are about psychoactive substances.\n\nThe point in making it illegal is to, as much as possible, prevent it from reaching children.  The impact it has on children bad.  Although not terribly well-understood, new streams of evidence are consistently bad.  One of the impacts with the most evidence is asthma and diabetes.  Less evidence, but highly probable is a correlation between marijuana use and the onset of paranoid schizophrenia.\n\nThere is a long list of other negative side effects.\n\nNow on a personal level, I don't really care if you shot yourself in the head, ate lead, or drank mercury, but I am angry about irresponsible parents and I am concerned that marijuana use impairs driving and judgement (people lie and say it doesn't, but slowing reaction time IS impairing driving ability).  So weed is illegal because it is a safety hazard based on the belief in the ignorance and irresponsibility of the greater mass of humanity.
686754
weed and maryjane kills brain cells but alcohol harm ur liver