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These days we keep hearing about "legalizing marijuana for recreational use", but what it really appears to be is an attempt to legalize marijuana as a far safer alternative to alcohol. According to the CDC, alcohol kills 80,000 people every year in the U.S. while marijuana kills none, and marijuana's addiction potential is about on par with coffee. Since marijuana is unquestionably milder, safer and less addictive than alcohol, we could GREATLY reduce the amount of harm and addiction in society by giving people the right to switch from the more harmful drug, alcohol, to the less harmful drug, marijuana.
Alcohol is significantly more harmful and more addictive than marijuana, while the prohibition on marijuana fuels criminal activity and funds organized crime. We need to contact our legislators and tell them to legalize marijuana like beer and wine.
We keep hearing about "legalizing marijuana for recreational use", but what it really appears to be is an attempt to legalize marijuana as a far safer alternative to alcohol.
According to the CDC, alcohol kills 80,000 people every year in the U.S. while marijuana kills none, and marijuana's addiction potential is only about that of coffee.
Since marijuana is far safer and far less addictive than alcohol, we could GREATLY reduce the amount of harm and addiction in society by giving people the right to switch from the more harmful drug, alcohol, to the less harmful drug, marijuana. Currently, paranoid old men keep marijuana illegal and make our children LESS safe.
I keep hearing about this "legalizing marijuana for recreational use" stuff, but what they really appear to be trying to do is legalize marijuana as a far safer alternative to alcohol.
According to the CDC, alcohol kills 80,000 people every year in the U.S. while marijuana kills none. And marijuana's addiction potential is about on par with coffee. So since marijuana is far safer and far less addictive than alcohol, we could GREATLY reduce the harm and addiction in society by letting people switch from the more harmful drug, alcohol, to the less harmful drug, marijuana. And that would be a good thing.
The only thing is though, people can't switch to marijuana while marijuana's illegal. That's where we come in - we have to tell *our* legislators to legalize marijuana like wine.
Studies show that *less* crime occurs where there are dispensaries. This is probably because drug dealers can't compete against the dispensaries and so aren't drawn into those areas. It's also interesting to see that The Netherlands has a lower rate of cannabis use than here - and they sell the stuff over the counter to adults just like beer and wine!
Anyway, one of the great benefits of cannabis is that it can be used as a far safer substitute to alcohol and other dangerous drugs, so an increase in cannabis use isn't necessarily a bad thing as it may be helping people use less alcohol which could be saving lives as we speak.
Drug dealers don't card - Supermarkets do!