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AlterNet reports
A new report, by the journal Scientific Reports,[1] finds that marijuana is far safer than other recreational drugs, including and especially alcohol.
Pot may be as much as 114 times safer than booze, say the researchers. The study also maintains that past research into alcohol has systematically underestimated the risks associated with its use.
The study sought to quantify the risk of death associated with the use of common recreational drugs. Alcohol, they found, was the deadliest substance, followed by heroin and cocaine. The safest drug was marijuana; it was also the only drug in the study that had a low mortality risk for users.
Unlike other studies into drug toxicity, the study did not use historical death counts associated with recreational drug used to come to its findings. Instead, the study weighed the potential lethal doses of a substance compared with the amount a typical user might consume. Booze posed the greatest risk to its users when comparing a fatal dose to typical recreational use.
This is not the first study to find that marijuana is significantly safer than other recreational drugs, including booze. A 2003 study by the School of Behavioral and Organizational Science at Claremont Graduate University produced similar results and rankings.(PDF)
[1] The link in the article is crap.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 28 2015, @04:32PM
Look gewg_ we get it. We get it, you want to get high. Fine. Move somewhere where it is legal. It is now legal in no less than 4 places in the united states and several European countries.
Please just stop with your 'its good for you'. Its not and you *know* it. You are putting crap in your body. Crap in crap out. You are wrapping 'happy words' around something that is bad for you. You are doing this to justify your stupid actions. Alcohol is just as bad if not worse. But guess what? Short of a constitutional amendment its mostly legal. It is also something you have a choice to buy and NOT buy. Which is what freedom is.
The thing is you just want a buzz. Fine. But can you please stop with the whiny stoner BS? Be honest with yourself and those around you. You will find your life a lot more 'chill' if you do that. You are using a drug to fix issues in your life. Notice how you keep having to use that drug to do so? Maybe you should fix the issue in your life that causes you to want to be baked? You will notice your 'close' friends are also all doing the same thing. As people tend to group together that do the same thing. You will notice those who seem to be doing decently in their lives treat drugs as what they are. Something to get a buzz with and move on.
Having attended a few drug classes with someone who is addicted to much harder stuff. I can safely say weed is the gateway (many stats/studies back me up on this). Some people stop there and never move on that is true (again stats). But out of all the hard core ones every last one started with weed (again stats). They are all looking to 'tune out' (their own words). They are unsatisfied with their lives and do not know how to change it. So they use drugs to escape (their own words). Dude cut you off in traffic. Smoke a joint (real life example). Dude said something rude to you in the line at mcd's? Pop a happy pill (real life example). You are medicating your life away. Those 'expansive' thoughts you are having are already there. You just dont let them out when you are not stoned for fear of something.
Another lie you are telling yourself is 'it does not affect me at all'. Is simply *NOT* true. Look no further than post after post after post you make. Look at the words coming from you. The 'man' is out to get you, the gov is not taking care of you enough, cops are going to crack your skull open, if only we could tax the rich to give to the poor. Notice how all of those things directly affect you alone. You are being greedy and selfish and only worrying about yourself while pretending to care for others. You are being paranoid and selfish (two well known side effects of habitual marijuana usage). Find that fear and let it go. You do not even post as yourself and you are one of the most prolific posters on this site. You are afraid of something. Let it go.
Most of my recovering alcoholic/stoner/heroin friends all say the same thing. 'we dont do it because it tastes good we do it because we like the effect'. Every. last. one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2015, @09:21AM
What you know about me is less than zero.
The moron who modded you up is even more stupid.
-- gewg_