lol @ everyone saying 'more people are killed by alcohol than marijuana'. That fact is entirely useless.
Remember, marijuana is illegal, and therefore harder to obtain than alcohol, so naturally there are less consumers of it than alcohol in the US: hence, more people die from alcohol related incidences than marijuana.
Anyone who thinks marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol seems to entirely ignore the proven long-term negative effects of marijuana on human health. Whether cigarettes or marijuana are worse is just pointless to argue since it's a question similar to 'is jumping off a cliff or shooting myself worse for me?'; they both offer different sets of health complications.
The thought that marijuana is 'more natural' (and therefore okay) is just laughable since plenty of natural substances are very bad for you (cyanide can be easily found in nature for example). The word 'chemical' does not instantly denote unsafe and unnatural; there are certainly chemicals in marijuana, just as there are in cigarettes. Marijuana still ruins lungs like cigarettes do. But it's your life, do what you want with it; I'm not one to say what is right and wrong, I'm just telling you the bad side of what marijuana will do to your body.
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lol @ everyone saying 'more people are killed by alcohol than marijuana'. That fact is entirely useless.
Remember, marijuana is illegal, and therefore harder to obtain than alcohol, so naturally there are less consumers of it than alcohol in the US: hence, more people die from alcohol related incidences than marijuana.
Anyone who thinks marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol seems to entirely ignore the proven long-term negative effects of marijuana on human health. Whether cigarettes or marijuana are worse is just pointless to argue since it's a question similar to 'is jumping off a cliff or shooting myself worse for me?'; they both offer different sets of health complications.
The thought that marijuana is 'more natural' (and therefore okay) is just laughable since plenty of natural substances are very bad for you (cyanide can be easily found in nature for example). The word 'chemical' does not instantly denote unsafe and unnatural; there are certainly chemicals in marijuana, just as there are in cigarettes. Marijuana still ruins lungs like cigarettes do. But it's your life, do what you want with it; I'm not one to say what is right and wrong, I'm just telling you the bad side of what marijuana will do to your body.