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Alcohol vs. Marijuana: All things considered, which one is worse for you & society &
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The Artisan
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fuck that shit. if i'm gonna do a drug while i'm eating my dinner why the fuck am i going to take it easy? it's a drug, either get intoxicated or don't do the drug at all.
Zombie James
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Alcohol, without question.
QuantumZebra
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If meat killed 100,000 people a year and was responsible for countless drunk driving accidents, brawls, domestic abuse cases, etc..
Sure!
Hmmm
That's not a healthy attitude at all.
The Artisan
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this thread is about you (every individual), society, and mankind.
not me.
PandaShake
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It's easy because FUCK drunk drivers. One of the worse news to read about. I was rear-ended badly while waiting to turn into a subdivision. Rolled into the shoulder from the inertia and called the police for a report for insurance. Other driver eventually walked over and even said sorry. I could smell the stench of alcohol emanating from him and we're in mid-day. Told him the police has been called so we can work it out through the report and insurance. He freaked out. Police came, gave my report, told me the other may have been drinking and said I can go if my car was still operable. Picked up my report and that man was over the limit and had no driver's license. Hoped my car's ass that day saved someone from an even worse collision with that drunk fuck.
The Artisan
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well yeah I see that it is a running gag, I just don't get the fucking joke.
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Steve.1981
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OP, the answer seems pretty obvious, though I don't want to minimize the harm of irresponsible marijuana use. Regardless, based on your responses and proclivity to getting 'fucked up', sounds like you've got some personal demons to wrestle with in your future.
The Artisan
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i said in the OP that if i had it my way, i would not consume alcohol at all. but it is the only LEGAL way to get fucked up. so if i'm going to do it, i'm going to get fucked up. otherwise there's no point.
i do. without making things too personal, i have issues.
spookyfish
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Came for Thor: The Dark World.
Was not disappointed.
And probably alcohol. So many more deaths, just in drunken driving alone, can be attributed to it.
Was not disappointed.
And probably alcohol. So many more deaths, just in drunken driving alone, can be attributed to it.
There is a point. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Professor Renegade
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As someone who has lived with an alcoholic I can tell you that alcohol is way worse than weed.
banefirelord
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Obviously marijuana is better for society. Drunk driving, alcohol abuse and related violence is a pox. Legalize that dank shit and collect some fat stacks of tax.
Personally, however, I will never use marijuana. I really hate the smell of marijuana being smoked and I'm not a big fan of the idea of being in an "altered state." I do drink alcohol, but only occasionally and mainly for the taste...I have a very high tolerance and have only been close to drunk once (which took an embarrassingly huge amount of alcohol in a very short period of time) and it wasn't enjoyable in the slightest.
Personally, however, I will never use marijuana. I really hate the smell of marijuana being smoked and I'm not a big fan of the idea of being in an "altered state." I do drink alcohol, but only occasionally and mainly for the taste...I have a very high tolerance and have only been close to drunk once (which took an embarrassingly huge amount of alcohol in a very short period of time) and it wasn't enjoyable in the slightest.
CookedChocobo
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As someone who has consumed a lot of both, only one had me in the hospital for consumption of too much aka alcohol poisoning 
gutter_trash
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lol, I voted wrong. I like weed better but voted weed is worse. Must be high on weed now
DontBeThatGuy
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The data we have dictates which one is wreaking much more havoc, and yet weed is a schedule 1 drug, right there with Heroin.
History tells us why it was categorized as such a thing in the first thing in the first place(take a guess), and apparently as long as it's still disproportional putting minorities through the ringers, we aren't getting the proper damn fix.
History tells us why it was categorized as such a thing in the first thing in the first place(take a guess), and apparently as long as it's still disproportional putting minorities through the ringers, we aren't getting the proper damn fix.
yanipheonu
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Alcohol hands down, and anyone who says otherwise is pretty much a crack pot.
Weed certainly has its problems. Schizophrenia is a concern, and despite not having a chemical addiction to it, there certainly is a psychological dependency that can occur.
Alcohol is categorically worse though. Actually addictive and a laundry list of health issues that, at this point, you'd have to be pretty ignorant to have not heard.
One of Marijuana's symptoms is Increased music appreciation, and can be beneficial for certain problems given the right strand.
Alcohol just gives me a headache and gets me all depressed. Makes people crazy and I'd rather deal with burnt out stoners than someone throwing up all over my house.
Weed certainly has its problems. Schizophrenia is a concern, and despite not having a chemical addiction to it, there certainly is a psychological dependency that can occur.
Alcohol is categorically worse though. Actually addictive and a laundry list of health issues that, at this point, you'd have to be pretty ignorant to have not heard.
One of Marijuana's symptoms is Increased music appreciation, and can be beneficial for certain problems given the right strand.
Alcohol just gives me a headache and gets me all depressed. Makes people crazy and I'd rather deal with burnt out stoners than someone throwing up all over my house.
The Artisan
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No, not for me. There is no point. If I am going to do the drug, I want to feel the effects the way I want to. If it's weak, then I'll feel like it's a waste trying to get intoxicated. So if I am going to get intoxicated, I have to really feel it.
whitemex88
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https://youtu.be/EumbZzk2rXU
TV says Weed. TV never lies
TV says Weed. TV never lies
And that's exactly why that's a really unhealthy and problematic way of looking at things.
As someone with a heck of a lot of experience with both, it's virtually impossible to NOT say alcohol. So many problems caused by it, in my family alone.
It's actually schedule 1, which is fucking bonkers.
It's actually schedule 1, which is fucking bonkers.
Fenderputty
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5% of the people responding are contrarian for the sake of being contrarian it seems.
DontBeThatGuy
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oops, yeah, forgot to change that.
Vulcano's assistant
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Scientifically it is alcohol. You can't die of cannabis withdrawal and you can totally have that strong a dependence of alcohol.
The Artisan
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my solution is to just not fucking consume it.
Spoiled Milk
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Marijuana is worse. Marijuana makes you stink like a skunk, but alcohol makes you more attractive.
ienjoyrawfish
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Alcohol, but cannabis' benignity is definitely embellished by its more vocal proponents. It should certainly be used in caution and has the potential to cause serious harm if abused (I've seen anecdotal as well as empirical evidence of this).
In fact, I would say that there are a number of illegal drugs which are wrongly considered to be "harder" than cannabis which are less dangerous, most notably MDMA and (especially) LSD and Mushrooms although, again, they should also be used with caution and moderation if at all.
In fact, I would say that there are a number of illegal drugs which are wrongly considered to be "harder" than cannabis which are less dangerous, most notably MDMA and (especially) LSD and Mushrooms although, again, they should also be used with caution and moderation if at all.
How is this even a question.
I know someone doing 5 years for vehicular manslaughter because of alcohol.
I also know people doing similar time. Not for hurting anyone, but for selling a plant.
I use weed to help with the enormous pain consuming alcohol causes my body. I try and avoid it as much as possible, it is way to easy to over indulge.
I know someone doing 5 years for vehicular manslaughter because of alcohol.
I also know people doing similar time. Not for hurting anyone, but for selling a plant.
I use weed to help with the enormous pain consuming alcohol causes my body. I try and avoid it as much as possible, it is way to easy to over indulge.
PlayALLtheGames
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I'm sorry but by ALL objective measures the answer is alcohol. There should be precisely 0 people who pick marijuana. Why are there more than 0 people who picked marijuana? That's wrong! You guys picked the wrong thing!
ghostofsparta
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Obviously alcohol.
Weed doesn't kill you
Weed actually has medicinal properties
Weed puts minorities in jail
Weed doesn't kill you
Weed actually has medicinal properties
Weed puts minorities in jail
Yeah well marijuana never made me play freeze tag in the middle of a busy intersection with friends or break into an elementary school at night to steal ice cream from the cafeteria, or run back and forth across a school roof top while being chased by the cops
but LSD sure did, the 90's were fun
The Artisan
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hurricanes
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Both if abuse.
And I haven't (and probably will never) seen Thor 2 so I can't give you an opinion on that.
And I haven't (and probably will never) seen Thor 2 so I can't give you an opinion on that.
QuantumZebra
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LOL I'm pretty sure 95% of the marijuana votes were exactly this
pretty done
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Never saw Thor 2 so I voted alcohol
if Batman vs. Superman was an option I'd have chosen that
if Batman vs. Superman was an option I'd have chosen that
Alcohol is definitely worse. My Dad has is on dialysis and has a shitty liver from years of Alcoholism.
An uncle of mine who was also an alcoholic is living with severe Epilepsy and the only thing that works to keep him from having bad seizures is Weed.
Weed isn't perfect(has its own set of problems from habitual use) and as someone who was raised Muslim(but no longer religious), I know where you're coming from but even still, Marijuana is by far a lesser evil.
An uncle of mine who was also an alcoholic is living with severe Epilepsy and the only thing that works to keep him from having bad seizures is Weed.
Weed isn't perfect(has its own set of problems from habitual use) and as someone who was raised Muslim(but no longer religious), I know where you're coming from but even still, Marijuana is by far a lesser evil.
The Artisan
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are you still muslim or do you really mean that you are just not really as religious as you were?
Warm Machine
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We have never had weed as widely available as alcohol or a user base anywhere near as large. If it were to scale to the same user base we don't know what is going to happen. My guess is probably not much except for a fast rise in related driving issues.
As a side example, no one really knew what a smart phone in everyone's pocket would do until everyone had one. How the population adapts and changes is more the worry. Alcohol, as bad as it is, is relatively harmless given the user base is something like 50 % of the population. For every addict there are something like 75 people who do just fine.
That said, alchohol is worse to the individual.
As a side example, no one really knew what a smart phone in everyone's pocket would do until everyone had one. How the population adapts and changes is more the worry. Alcohol, as bad as it is, is relatively harmless given the user base is something like 50 % of the population. For every addict there are something like 75 people who do just fine.
That said, alchohol is worse to the individual.
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