10 Reasons Pot Is Better Than Alcohol

[superjoint]

The laws currently on the books force adults to choose alcohol instead of marijuana when they seek to relax or socialize. Given alcohol is far more harmful than marijuana, this makes no sense whatsoever. Marijuana is the safest of all drugs. It is far safer to smoke a joint than to have a beer.

1. Alcohol is deadly; Pot is not. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, approximately 20,000 Americans die annually as the direct result of alcohol consumption. The comparable number for marijuana is zero.
2. Pot is a lesser driving hazard than alcohol. A single glass of wine will impair your driving more than smoking a joint. And under certain test conditions, the complex way alcohol and cannabis combine to affect driving behavior suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk. These are the findings of a major study by British transport researchers
3. Pot makes you calm. Alcohol makes you aggressive. People high on alcohol tend to get into arguments and fights. While, folks high on pot become calm and have little or no tendency to argue.
4. Pot is much less addictive than alcohol, tobacco and even coffee.
5. Pot heightens imagination and improves creativity. Marijuana makes most people more relaxed. It relieves the clutter and tension after a hard days work. It mellows you out and makes you more relaxed. It heightens the imagination and improves creativity. If you have a problem with anger, Pot is usually a good drug to reduce it.
6. Pot does not give you hangovers. No morning after headaches, no waking up in puke.
7. Pot has potential health benefits. For thousands of years, throughout the world, people have used marijuana to treat a variety of medical conditions. People undergoing cancer chemotherapy have found smoked marijuana to be an effective anti-nauseant. Marijuana is also smoked by thousands of AIDS patients to treat the nausea and vomiting associated with both the disease and AZT drug therapy.
8. Pot is way cheaper than alcohol. Much, much cheaper both in direct and indirect costs.
9. Alcohol poses much dangerous health risks than pot.
10. Pot does not make you stupid/helpless/pass out. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health College found that nearly three quarters (72 percent) of all college female rape victims experienced rape while on alcohol.

And now, just to flip the argument. Ten Reasons why a beer is better than marijuana. (By Ralf Rinkle)

1. Beer makes your mouth wet while they say marijuana does the opposite… not only promoting cavities, but making it hard to spit on foreign speaking aliens and other culture less low lifes.
2. That pot crap is alleged to make you contract the “munchies” and want to eat lots of high calorie brownies and other things like that - unlike beer that turns you into a fat slob all by itself.
3. Who’d you rather be like? a) Homer Simpson - a beer drinker. b) Newt Gingrich and Al Gore - both admitted [former? Ha!!] pot addicts.
4. You ever hear of a “marijuana room brawl”? Of course not. And let me tell you, you haven’t experienced joy until you’ve sunk your knuckles into your friend’s or neighbor’s face… or sneaked up from behind and smashed a chair over her head… and, with beer - unlike that pot - it doesn’t even hurt till later. Take it from me , nothing makes you macho as beating the shit out of people… especially if they can’t fight back.
5. Driving full of beer is a lot of fun and when you hit something like a kid or old person [which it facilitates a lot more than pot does] you like it a lot more.
6. If all your dead-hippie-music-heroes like Terry Garcia, Janet Jopkins, Jamie Hendrickson, that dead Beagle guy Lenin [who shot himself in New York], Nick Jagger and Marie Osmond drank lots of beer instead of overdosing to death on pot they wouldn’t be as dead… though this might not be such a good thing since they probably still wouldn’t recognize good music if it jumped up and bit them on the butt.
7. Beer drinkers give their kids the love they need - unlike you potheads who wouldn’t whomp the living crap out your little monsters with a nice heavy belt even if they did something like act like a sissy, ask you a stupid question or make noise while you’re watching a football game.
8. Believe it or not dude, you don’t need to be a pot smoker to be hep and cool and psychogroovidelic. Just look at me… I was practically a world famous beatnik in 1953… except, thanks to my idiot brother who can’t read a subway map if it’s glued to his eyeballs, we got off in Harlem, and by the time we got out of the hospital and down to Bleeker St. the damn coffeehouse was closed. . . at least all the people holding the door shut said it was.
9. Unlike beer factories, your average pot factory doesn’t pay its fair share of taxes. How the hell do you expect our government to afford to do things like have wars or tell us how to live and think without lots of money?
10. Lastly, something you damn tree-hugging nature lovers seemed to overlook: Beer is at least 50% organic and natural, but who knows what poisons and potions from Hades those marijuana manufacturers use, especially since the scum don’t use those helpful government mandated ingredient labels which proves it’s probably mostly plutonium their commie buddies scooped up from Chernobyl and never even washed the atomic germs off of.

Addendum. (From safercolorado.org)

[murderouspanda]

Originally Posted by superjoint

The laws currently on the books force adults to choose alcohol instead of marijuana when they seek to relax or socialize. Given alcohol is far more harmful than marijuana, this makes no sense whatsoever. Marijuana is the safest of all drugs. It is far safer to smoke a joint than to have a beer.

I want to smoke a joint and drink a beer, for safety's sake.

[DJ Squiggly]

i dont like your post. my biggest complaint is that it makes it seem as if you drink beer and "poof" your in a brawl. thats only with certain people, and is a sweeping generalization just like all pot heads are lazy. besides, we all know what beer does, how many it kills, and how pot is better(though i know many who would differ, but its all opinion) so please stop posting things everyone already knows. now i feel like a dick, but whatever, its probly just the beer talking, naw mee?

AHHHHHH i see the humor now, i only read the first thing and assumed you where being serious. my bad, i shouldnt jump like that ya know? good post for the funnies.

[Shaggy'sBong]

you said you cant pass out from pot but you can
you can puke too, but that is only if your a dumbass while smoking (i saw a kid puke the other day, from a spoon, hes dumb)

[SmokinBroccoli]

I've had weed hangovers. By smoking some really shitty weed or by the result of someone improperly packing a bowl (leaving in stems or seeds) I have had some of the worst hangovers of my life the next day. It's different than a booze hangover. Those who have had a weed hangover will know what I'm talking about. It's that cloudy foggy hazy slow feeling you get the next morning and it comes with a pounding headache.

[snow_bud]

pot is addictive mentally. and if you are a curtain blood type you can be vulnerable to phscosis. also 3 litre of cider 3 quid 10 bag of weed a 10a

[Adjs311]

lol ^

[PurpleWidow?]

since when is alchohol more expensive than weed?

[Ontspan]

Originally Posted by SmokinBroccoli

I've had weed hangovers. By smoking some really shitty weed or by the result of someone improperly packing a bowl (leaving in stems or seeds) I have had some of the worst hangovers of my life the next day. It's different than a booze hangover. Those who have had a weed hangover will know what I'm talking about. It's that cloudy foggy hazy slow feeling you get the next morning and it comes with a pounding headache.

I get that a lot, depending on how much I smoked. But I've never had a headache the next morning from weed.

[TheBluntedOne]

If you want to chill or watch a movie pot is the way to go.

But if you want to open up to strangers and get some ass, alcohol

[Advil]

Originally Posted by snow_bud

pot is addictive mentally. and if you are a curtain blood type you can be vulnerable to phscosis.

lol #2 ^

[amsterdamage]

marijuana is better than alcohol, but both should be legalized so people can choose. Along with legalization the government should push marijuana as a safe alternative to alcohol.

Comparisons
Death by different drugs (doesn't include marijuana) http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units...s/overdose.cfm
Compare tobacco and marijuana http://www.jointogether.org/news/res...acco-than.html
Tobacco marijuana comparison http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEntityId=20

[jsmak]

Yea your a little too critical of alcohol. Don't forget, theres probably a lot of drinkers on this board too.

[stonergirly420]

Originally Posted by PurpleWidow?

since when is alchohol more expensive than weed?

Seriously what the hell.

[bigzach88]

the shit about alcohl is lame obviously someone who favors weed made it i like both