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Is alcohol or marijuana more damaging to the overall body and why?
Thepinkpig
Alcohol wins all the prizes for damage to the body over marijuana by a huge margin.
For number of people killed outright by the drug, alcohol leads with about 100,000 deaths per year, compared to no recorded deaths in history for marijuana. See How many people are killed by drugs?
http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/basicfax3.htm
Every major government commission report in the last 100 years has concluded that alcohol and tobacco are both more dangerous than marijuana. See Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy - http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/studies.htm
The World Health Organization studied the issues specifically and found that both alcohol and tobacco are far more dangerous to the health in every respect than marijuana. See A Comparative Appraisal of the Health and Psychological Consequences of Alcohol, Cannabis, Nicotine and Opiate Use - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/general/who-index.htm
It really depends on how you use it. One glass of wine a week, a beer with dinner or a shot to get you asleep are all far better than getting completely stoned and losing your job because of it. However by the same token marijuana can calm down a person with anxiety disorders, relieve the pain of a long-term cancer or Arthritis patient and many other things and these effects are far more useful than sculling alcohol until you pass out and get liver and brain damage, or by smoking a pack a day before dying age 40 of lung cancer.
Each has its positives and its negatives, and it is people that makes each good or bad, not the drug itself - citing reports on marijuana use and comparing it to alcohol and tobacco is pointless, since so many people can and do use the latter while the former is underreoprted and very biased.
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Alcohol by far as it does damage to your body and causes addiction.
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yes
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alcohol tends to have a higher addiction rate and can be more harmful to the body
Can you take alcohol and smoke marijuana after appendix operation that has last close to two months now?
Alcohol, I wouldn't yet. But marijuana is fine. It helps your body heal.
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Is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol?
absolutely not. as you can see in the link above, alcohol requires more dependence than marijuana. this means that if someone gets drunk off of alcohol, the next time they wish to get drunk they will have to consume more alcohol than the previous time. Also, alcohol is more addictive than marijuana. saying your addicted to marijuana is like saying your addicted to facebook (or something else that you really enjoy doing). as for alcohol, your body depends on alcohol. For marijuana, the addiction is all in your head. as far as overdosing, the theoretical amount of pot you have to consume is over a thousand hits (of course this cant be proven because no one has ever bothered to try it). with alcohol, it is very easy to suffer from alcohol poisoning if one gets drunk enough and is an alcoholic. for intoxication, alcohol leads to direct violence toward others, where marijuana simply makes people relaxed and more tolerant of their surroundings. alcohol can directly lead to serious physical injuries to ones body where marijuana is seldom seen as a direct cause.
Is smoking marijuana bad after getting a tattoo?
Smoking marijuana after getting a tattoo will cause no harm to your body. However, alcohol intake before getting a tattoo can cause excess bleeding.
What would happen if you take alcohol and marijuana at the same time?
If you took alcohol and "weed" at the same time, you would be in a very mixed-up state, by receiving the "high" effect from the marijuana, and then the "tipsy" to "drunk" effect from the alcohol. A fact sheet from the University of Washington Alcohol Drug Abuse Institute updated December 2012 reveals that combining both alcohol and marijuana creates interactions in the human body between the two. Research indicates that driving under the influence of both marijuana and alcohol at the same time is worse than driving under one or the other individually.
Is it bad to mix marijuana and alcohol?
Aside from weed being illegal and alcohol being damaging to our body...it's not recommended to drink and smoke at the same time. Both marijuana and alcohol are depressants, meaning they will eventually slow your body's mechanisms down. So one drug enhances the effects of the other. Drink too much, then smoke some weed and you may end up depressing your breathing to a dangerous level. However, I've known many people that have used both drugs simultaneously and been fine. That said, maybe it's a good idea to look into other hobbies. You liver and lungs will thank you.
Is Weed better than alcohol?
Weed is better for your body than alcohol for a few reasons.You won't throw up when you're high.You won't have a hangover.It feels better.You won't feel the need to do damaging things.It does less damage to your body.
