i don't understand this cannabis-is-safer-than-alcohol myth. for example, i know people that have an extremely low mental tolerance for cannabis while functioning completely normal on a bottle of beer a day. also, i think that it is fairly well known that cannabis has a worrying correlation with schizophrenia [0]
It's not a myth and a few simple google with give you plenty of evidence. Here's a few:
- Cancer
- Weight gain (alcohol is more calorie dense than sugar)
- Birth defects
- Drunk driving: 10K deaths a year
- Violence / sexual violence
- Overdosing
- Withdrawal can cause death
- Did you know date rape drugs wouldn't work without alcohol? (2) It's only the combination with alcohol that causes the victim to pass out.
If you actually look at how alcohol has an impact on the body, it's effectively a poison. It has no medical benefits and only consequences. The whole red wine thing has nothing to do with alcohol but some of the enzymes in red wine specifically. Just drink grape juice instead.
I really don't care if you give yourself cancer. That's a personal decision but consumption of alcohol leads to so much crime and impact on others. Weed not so much. As a society, we've made a decision to tolerate it but it's still there.
a glass of red a night is most likely not going to give you cancer or damage your DNA. a joint a night on the other have just might (depending on your predisposition) have an extremely negative effect
besides given how long we have been consuming alcohol throughout our history, i think its effects are largely understood. we do not know this about cannabis
It's like you don't even know google exists. You just spout one false fact after another.
Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history (1). It was smoked for pleasure and religiously long before Christianity became a religion.
I wonder, do you dilute your glass of red wine before drinking it? The ancient Greeks diluted their wine with 25% wine and 75% water. They also viewed anyone who didn't as a barbarian and drunkard (2).
How long do you think humans have been consuming cannabis? Arguably longer than alcohol, not that it matters anyhow. The restrictions are arbitrary, not to mention being habituated to a nightly GABA agonist (alcohol) has just as many negative implications as nightly cannabinoids. The cannabinoids just won't five you cancer on top of it
I'm specifically focusing on the pharmacology of the psychoactive substances rather than the method used to consume them. No matter the method of administration, there are still risks and side effects. Sidestepping the discussion of smoking vs gaping allows us to focus on the action of the compounds themselves. We already know smoking is bad, we should not combust things and inhale the byproducts
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i don't understand this cannabis-is-safer-than-alcohol myth. for example, i know people that have an extremely low mental tolerance for cannabis while functioning completely normal on a bottle of beer a day. also, i think that it is fairly well known that cannabis has a worrying correlation with schizophrenia [0]
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442038/
It's not a myth and a few simple google with give you plenty of evidence. Here's a few:
- Cancer
- Weight gain (alcohol is more calorie dense than sugar)
- Birth defects
- Drunk driving: 10K deaths a year
- Violence / sexual violence
- Overdosing
- Withdrawal can cause death
- Did you know date rape drugs wouldn't work without alcohol? (2) It's only the combination with alcohol that causes the victim to pass out.
If you actually look at how alcohol has an impact on the body, it's effectively a poison. It has no medical benefits and only consequences. The whole red wine thing has nothing to do with alcohol but some of the enzymes in red wine specifically. Just drink grape juice instead.
I really don't care if you give yourself cancer. That's a personal decision but consumption of alcohol leads to so much crime and impact on others. Weed not so much. As a society, we've made a decision to tolerate it but it's still there.
1. https://drugabuse.com/blog/marijuana-vs-alcohol/
2. https://www.drugs.com/illicit/ghb.html
Eating cannabis won't give you cancer, drinking alcohol likely will. One of these things has metabolites that actively damages DNA and one does not
a glass of red a night is most likely not going to give you cancer or damage your DNA. a joint a night on the other have just might (depending on your predisposition) have an extremely negative effect
besides given how long we have been consuming alcohol throughout our history, i think its effects are largely understood. we do not know this about cannabis
It's like you don't even know google exists. You just spout one false fact after another.
Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history (1). It was smoked for pleasure and religiously long before Christianity became a religion.
I wonder, do you dilute your glass of red wine before drinking it? The ancient Greeks diluted their wine with 25% wine and 75% water. They also viewed anyone who didn't as a barbarian and drunkard (2).
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis#:~:text=Ca....
2) https://www.worldhistory.org/article/944/wine-in-the-ancient...
How long do you think humans have been consuming cannabis? Arguably longer than alcohol, not that it matters anyhow. The restrictions are arbitrary, not to mention being habituated to a nightly GABA agonist (alcohol) has just as many negative implications as nightly cannabinoids. The cannabinoids just won't five you cancer on top of it
So vaporize it.
Not "vape", with juice.
Heat, and inhale.
I'm specifically focusing on the pharmacology of the psychoactive substances rather than the method used to consume them. No matter the method of administration, there are still risks and side effects. Sidestepping the discussion of smoking vs gaping allows us to focus on the action of the compounds themselves. We already know smoking is bad, we should not combust things and inhale the byproducts
Yah, well. Then don't. Maybe plug the gaping hole with it. Rectal administration is a thing. (I've heard)