Cannabis cannot be compared with Alcohol

  • Marijuana is demonstrably the least harmful substance commonly used. It overwhelmingly defeats the two most common substances used by today's society – alcohol and tobacco.
  • Canadian patients prefer medical cannabis over other medications, new studies prove
  • Most respondents reduced the volume of opiates like Vicodin or morphine thanks to cannabis
  • Surprisingly, respondents replaced even other addictive drugs such as alcohol and tobacco with cannabis
  • Scientists label medical cannabis as 114 times safer than alcohol
  • Medical cannabis appears at the absolute last place of drug harmfulness

The view that marijuana is significantly safer than alcohol and nicotine is not new. Anyone who has ever gone through a brutal hangover after drinking the night before knows this with absolute certainty. However, as marijuana is gradually legalized, people are making this comparison more and more often. Let's look at it from a scientific perspective.

Cannabis vs. Alcohol vs. Tobacco

In 2015, scientists conducted a measurement examining the fatal risk of 10 common legal and illegal substances. The research compared cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, heroin, cocaine, MDMA (ecstasy), methamphetamine, diazepam, amphetamine and methadone. The study found that alcohol is the most risky, followed by nicotine, cocaine and heroin. It was discovered that cannabis is, by far, the safest substance on the list, even when compared to alcohol and tobacco.

These findings, according to lead author Dick Lanchenmeier, "confirm the results of previous studies, but with a completely different method."

This study used a completely new risk assessment method called the "Margin of Exposure" (MOE) method. This method essentially works with the ratio of dose that characterizes adverse effects and the amount people commonly use.

According to researchers, the marijuana hazard could have been "overestimated in the past", while the risk associated with alcohol is "commonly underestimated." It was also found that alcohol is 114 times more deadly than cannabis.

"Alcohol is responsible for one in ten adult deaths"

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an incredible one in ten deaths of people of working age in the United States can be attributed to excessive alcohol consumption. Alcohol is associated with everything from heart disease to cancer. Alcohol poisoning is responsible for about 2000 deaths annually.

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The results of a new study evaluating the danger of various recreational drugs may surprise few of you. Medical cannabis, in terms of harmfulness, is placed, incredibly, at the very last place. What is quite startling, however, is that alcohol ranks first as the most effective killer of the human body.

More precisely, researchers evaluated medical cannabis as 114 times safer than alcohol, which appeared in the "high risk" column alongside drugs like heroin or cocaine. Drugs like MDMA (ecstasy) and methamphetamine were placed in the "medium risk" column.

However, this scientific classification of drugs by risk unfortunately has nothing to do with how these substances are evaluated by governments of many countries today. What do you think, does medical cannabis deserve to stand alongside drugs like heroin and methamphetamine, while alcohol is fully legal?

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