Marijuana Vs. Alcohol

[PinkPixel]

Okay, so I've been doing some thinking about the topic of Marijuana and Alcohol. Law says you can't legally drink until the age of 21 if I'm not mistaken. So what about Marijuana? It is illegal by all standards?

My problem is, what causes so many car accidents and deaths every single year, is it Marijuana? I think not, it is Alcohol that does this.*1

Marijuana is used for medicinal purposes such as people with Glaucoma, and chronic pain in the back or other areas of the body. This is because it's an analgesic.*2

Marijuana is flat-out illegal. Why? Shouldn't weed have an age requirement too? It certainly does much less damage and causes much less deaths than Alchohol does.*3

Think about it, Marijuana can be addictive, or the effects can, and so can Alcohol. But which one causes more of a disruption? People get angry, and abusive and wanting to pick a fight because they are under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant.*4

Marijuana on the other hand, is a depressant. It helps to relax and soothe pain.*5

So why is there an age limit on Alcohol but Marijuana is illegal by any means? Alcohol clearly does more damage than anyone under the influence of Marijuana.*6

Please post your thoughts here. I don't want anyone posting any replys that are un-educated or any 1337 speak. Intelligent conversations here.

*1 the problem it stays in yor system and continues to impare yor decisions 4 4mnth after.

*2 so is alchahol

*3 it does less dmg as it is illegal lol. 35 yrs bak some of finland made alchhol illegal. road accidents and violence as a result of alchahol was down over 95%

*4+5 lol u said there both depresants

*6 using the logic you giv shouldnt both be illegal? your saying weed isnt as bad a alchahol? but you stil say its bad lol

 

[1000K]

Its both legal over here.

Alcohol 16 years and older.
Drugs 18 years and older.

 

[Severe]

Im sick of all the pro-marijuana talk these days, i see it everywhere and i just think its ridiculous. Alot of the supporters are just dumb kids having trouble in high school and resort to smoking weed, now im not straight edge or anything, i do smoke weed on special occasions, but its amazing to me how some people are so devoted to trying to legalize pot that they forget it is almost inevitable.

Once all you kids fail your first year in high school because of smoking weed at lunch in the alley, you'll wake up and realize that to have such a priveledge requires a high amount of responsibility, and people lack that, just because its not alcohol doesn't mean you can over-use it, especially at school.

 

[yeah]

Sorry all you weed-loving-denying idiots. Weed is psychologically addictive. I know this from experience. I smoked almost everyday for 3 years and my life started to fall apart. I KNEW I had to cut back, but everyday, I would get high and thought I had it under control. I would steal money to get money and didnt care if i got caught. I had friends who were the same way and still are f***ed up only now they are doing more. Then I got arrested for poss and had to go to rehab. I went through withdraw and it was horrible. I threw up a few times and was shaky. But the worse part was that I was so anxious. I couldnt think straight. Thoughts would race through my head. I wanted to get high so bad. The way I look at it is, some people can drink once in awhile and have control. Other people become alcoholics and their life is over. Some people can get high once in awhile, and others just want to get high everyday, all day if they could, and are stoners with no life. Believe me, you start to not care about anything and lose everything and only care about getting high. btw, almost all studies were done on adult brains and they show that weed causes very little damage to the brain. They are just starting to study the effects on people under 21 and they are seeing a whole different picture. They are finding increased depression, psychosis and problems with learning and memory that continue after your quit. They think it is because the brain is still growing. So if you think weed is not addictive you are dead wrong.

 

[Gnomey]

As long as it doesn't directly effect the lives of others (Giving your kid drugs or alcohol are equally as bad in my book - or anything similar, kids or not) then I could care less what people put in their bodies or do to themselves. Next thing you know we're going to try and help bulemics by regulating the amount people can vomit. Then again, people have no self control, so let's up the penalty for those that do harm others and let them run wild. (Oh, and get rid of unemployment and welfare for those who lose their job or savings from addiction).

 

[Shredderbeam]

Sorry all you weed-loving-denying idiots. Weed is psychologically addictive. I know this from experience. I smoked almost everyday for 3 years and my life started to fall apart. I KNEW I had to cut back, but everyday, I would get high and thought I had it under control. I would steal money to get money and didnt care if i got caught. I had friends who were the same way and still are f***ed up only now they are doing more. Then I got arrested for poss and had to go to rehab. I went through withdraw and it was horrible. I threw up a few times and was shaky. But the worse part was that I was so anxious. I couldnt think straight. Thoughts would race through my head. I wanted to get high so bad. The way I look at it is, some people can drink once in awhile and have control. Other people become alcoholics and their life is over. Some people can get high once in awhile, and others just want to get high everyday, all day if they could, and are stoners with no life. Believe me, you start to not care about anything and lose everything and only care about getting high. btw, almost all studies were done on adult brains and they show that weed causes very little damage to the brain. They are just starting to study the effects on people under 21 and they are seeing a whole different picture. They are finding increased depression, psychosis and problems with learning and memory that continue after your quit. They think it is because the brain is still growing. So if you think weed is not addictive you are dead wrong.

Anything can be psychologically addictive if you want it enough. Take sex, for example. It's true, there are millions of sex addicts out there. It ruins their lives. Should we make that illegal?

 

[robotzindisguise]

Sorry all you weed-loving-denying idiots. Weed is psychologically addictive. I know this from experience. I smoked almost everyday for 3 years and my life started to fall apart. I KNEW I had to cut back, but everyday, I would get high and thought I had it under control. I would steal money to get money and didnt care if i got caught. I had friends who were the same way and still are f***ed up only now they are doing more. Then I got arrested for poss and had to go to rehab. I went through withdraw and it was horrible. I threw up a few times and was shaky. But the worse part was that I was so anxious. I couldnt think straight. Thoughts would race through my head. I wanted to get high so bad. The way I look at it is, some people can drink once in awhile and have control. Other people become alcoholics and their life is over. Some people can get high once in awhile, and others just want to get high everyday, all day if they could, and are stoners with no life. Believe me, you start to not care about anything and lose everything and only care about getting high. btw, almost all studies were done on adult brains and they show that weed causes very little damage to the brain. They are just starting to study the effects on people under 21 and they are seeing a whole different picture. They are finding increased depression, psychosis and problems with learning and memory that continue after your quit. They think it is because the brain is still growing. So if you think weed is not addictive you are dead wrong.

Are you sure it wasn't crack you were smoking. I had a friend who's parents sent him to rehab because of weed, and everyone there used to laugh at him. They were mainly alcholics and coke-heads. Weed is not physically addictive to the extent you will throw up when you don't get it, so whatever you were smoking wasn't regular weed. I started smoking weed at the age of 13, and was smoking every day from the age 14 and continued smoking pretty much all the time through school and college along with a lot of my friends. Sure there was one guy I knew who dropped out of school and I'm sure people jump at the chance to blame it on the weed, but another one of my friends got 6 A's, whilst playing rugby which was the main sport over here for Scotland under 18's for the national side, we all smoked weed pretty much every single day. Me personally I put my head down and studied hard for my exams, made it to college, got through it no problems, despite smoking a hell of a lot of weed. The way I look at it, weed is often made the scapegoat whenever someone fails at something. The truth is if you smoke weed and end up getting kicked out of school or college it was not the weed's fault it was your fault (not for smoking weed) for not doing the work!

 

[T4ank]

Im sick of all the pro-marijuana talk these days, i see it everywhere and i just think its ridiculous. Alot of the supporters are just dumb kids having trouble in high school and resort to smoking weed, now im not straight edge or anything, i do smoke weed on special occasions, but its amazing to me how some people are so devoted to trying to legalize pot that they forget it is almost inevitable.

Once all you kids fail your first year in high school because of smoking weed at lunch in the alley, you'll wake up and realize that to have such a priveledge requires a high amount of responsibility, and people lack that, just because its not alcohol doesn't mean you can over-use it, especially at school.

I was lucky enough to fail a grade, drop out, and CONTINUE to smoke. Lucky aye?

 

[Kyo]

1. marijuana is proven not to kill braincells.

2. marijuana is not physically addictive.

3. there is NO possible way to overdose on marijuana. (whilst there is with alcohol)

4. I've smoked weed since the 5th grade, and im in TAG (talented and gifted) classes and making A's and B's in them.

overall, I vote marijuana over alcohol.

(www.erowid.org) - a non bullshit explanation for EVERY drug.

 

[enjoi888]

its illegal... cuz the gov cant put taxes on it

why would they legalize it...they woudnt make money off it

i smoked fat ass blunts and drove.... its so easy! and enjoyable it make u relax and u make good decisions compared to being uptight and worrying ur gonna make a mistake i run ball uber good wen im high too but there are some things that smoking makes me worse at

on the other hand I WOULD NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE... bad things happen to good ppl

 

[Shredderbeam]

its illegal... cuz the gov cant put taxes on it

why would they legalize it...they woudnt make money off it

i smoked fat ass blunts and drove.... its so easy! and enjoyable it make u relax and u make good decisions compared to being uptight and worrying ur gonna make a mistake i run ball uber good wen im high too but there are some things that smoking makes me worse at

on the other hand I WOULD NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE... bad things happen to good ppl

Driving while high? Don't do that again. That was incredibly dangerous. It does increase the chances of you having an accident. I don't care if you pose a threat to yourself, but when you do it to others, that's when I object.

 

[enjoi888]

Driving while high? Don't do that again. That was incredibly dangerous. It does increase the chances of you having an accident. I don't care if you pose a threat to yourself, but when you do it to others, that's when I object.

have u ever drove high?no have i? yes

got no room to talk if u never experienced it, it makes u a better driver. and alcohol will make u crash in a second

 

[Shredderbeam]

have u ever drove high?no have i? yes

got no room to talk if u never experienced it, it makes u a better driver. and alcohol will make u crash in a second

If you didn't crash, then you were lucky as hell. The thing is, marijuana makes you relaxed, less alert, etc. People under the influence of substances usually think that they can drive better, but they usually cannot.

 

[Kaos_Mage]

Molta is illegal because the goverment cant make any money off of it.. its to easy to grow and they cants tax it

 

[X Zero]

Most of you have no idea what your talking about.

As every drug does, there are highs and lows. Every time you use a drug, its more difficult to get you high, thus Taking more gets you a short high but a mad as low (depressant) or w/e