Do you consider marijuana riskier than alcohol or tobacco?

[earth_as_one]

Public poll above:

...Of the poll's 800 respondents, 59 per cent said they believe regular marijuana use is less harmful than regular alcohol use. It also found that 54 per cent believe marijuana is neither dangerous nor addictive. Moreover, 51 per cent said they do not think marijuana is a gateway drug that could lead to the use of other dangerous drugs like heroin...

Do you consider regular marijuana use more harmful than regular tobacco or alcohol use? How often, and how much, constitutes regular use for any of these substances? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

CBC poll:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunit...r-less-dangerous-than-tobacco-or-alcohol.html

 

[petros]

Chocolate is the great gateway drug. Bow to your dark lord the cocoa bean.

 

[earth_as_one]

I agree all three are harmful. But I picked tobacco as the most harmful based on tobacco related deaths.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Stoners tend not to be fighters. Look at the bar scene on a Saturday night.

I'd like to grow some pot on my patio and sell it to a wholesaler who would take it away to be processed when its ripe. My patio gets to 100 F in the summer for a few weeks. I could make a few hundred bucks easily but the risk of a break in doesn't make it worth it.

 

[Colpy]

Of course, all drugs are harmful, alcohol, tobacco and marijuana are obviously harmful.

If you want to see how damaging to the mind marijuana is, just watch this space and take note of the foaming-at-the-mouth dopeheads screaming incoherently at the very suggestion that their precious (which is just so not addictive in any way) has any fault whatsoever.

its hilarious.

BTW, I smoked dope daily for close to 25 years, and I think it should be legal.

That does NOT mean I am deluded enough to think it is harmless.

 

[earth_as_one]

I agree that people would be better off drug free.

 

[petros]

Of course, all drugs are harmful, alcohol, tobacco and marijuana are obviously harmful.

If you want to see how damaging to the mind marijuana is, just watch this space and take note of the foaming-at-the-mouth dopeheads screaming incoherently at the very suggestion that their precious (which is just so not addictive in any way) has any fault whatsoever.

its hilarious.

BTW, I smoked dope daily for close to 25 years, and I think it should be legal.

That does NOT mean I am deluded enough to think it is harmless.

There are some who shouldn't smoke dope just like some shouldn't drink. Pill poppers and powder people can go screw themselves.

 

[Goober]

I agree all three are harmful. But I picked tobacco as the most harmful based on tobacco related deaths.

Not many people smoking 3 packs of joints a day. God you think things out so well.

 

[JLM]

And drinking milk is the most harmful because ALL the victims of each of these substances had been found to be drinking milk prior to the substance use.

 

[Tonington]

I agree that people would be better off drug free.

Go burn every piece of music you own. Or at least a good portion of it. :lol:

 

[Goober]

I agree that people would be better off drug free.

Judging by how you turned out I think you make a positive case in favor of drug use. Just a personal opinion.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Do I consider marijuana riskier than alcohol or tobacco?

Answering the title literally (like purchasing and possession),
then yeah....I guess it would be. Currently one is legal, and
one is not.

Daily use of either is pretty dumb, but I think the dope would
be least harmful....if I had to choose one.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

IMO There are two types of personalities. People who can indulge in drug use like alcohol and cannabis socially and still maintain a normal lifestyle and people who have a predisposition to addiction who should steer clear of mind altering substances.

I don't buy the gateway argument.

If you are an addictive personality you will graduate to harder drugs.

Most people outgrow smoking up regularly or power drinking.

 

[JLM]

IMO There are two types of personalities. People who can indulge in drug use like alcohol and cannabis socially and still maintain a normal lifestyle and people who have a predisposition to addiction who should steer clear of mind altering substances.

I don't buy the gateway argument.

If you are an addictive personality you will graduate to harder drugs.

Most people outgrow smoking up regularly or power drinking.

Outside of what I've seen drugs do to other people I really have no knowledge of the workings of them. With alcohol I would say addictioin only happens to a low percentage (Maybe 5-10%) I have no idea what the addiction rate is for drug use. Can someone clue me in? I know years ago we were led to believe once you started you were immediately addicted, but I rather doubt that is true.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Outside of what I've seen drugs do to other people I really have no knowledge of the workings of them. With alcohol I would say addictioin only happens to a low percentage (Maybe 5-10%) I have no idea what the addiction rate is for drug use. Can someone clue me in? I know years ago we were led to believe once you started you were immediately addicted, but I rather doubt that is true.

Well I don't look at cannabis the same way as I look at Meth or Crack or Heroin. Those are highly addictive and if one is stupid enough to shoot it, snort it or smoke it they will likely become addicted. Pot or alcohol might be a factor in this, but at a very low percentage where an addictive personality is involved.

 

[gopher]

Cannabis = God's gift to humanity.

Our Saviouress Seshat:

 

[Ron in Regina]

Cannabis = God's gift to humanity.

Our Saviouress Seshat:

Uhm....I'm think'n that's not what you think it is. The pic
looks Egyptian, and dope is a new world (across the
atlantic) thing, wasn't it?

Unless there was ocean going trans-Atlantic trade going
down between these continients a couple thousand years
back....but....maybe there was.

???

???

 

[Cliffy]

The Arabic people have been smoking hashish for thousands of years. Pot has been used as a medicine for longer than that in just about every part of the world. If it had an origin, it might have been Atlantis or Lemuria. There may have been one strain indigenous to America, perhaps Indica, but I believe Sativa originated in India. Back in the day, I smoked pot and hash from all over the world, but two stood out as being incredibly refined: Nepalese Temple Hash and Moroccan Hash (not the crap that made it here - it was at least 50% camel dung, but the stuff they smoked).

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Stop the Violence BC, an organisation of police, medical professionals and academics says the war on drugs has been a failure. So legalise, regulate and tax it.

Metro - Weed war up in smoke

 

[talloola]

Outside of what I've seen drugs do to other people I really have no knowledge of the workings of them. With alcohol I would say addictioin only happens to a low percentage (Maybe 5-10%) I have no idea what the addiction rate is for drug use. Can someone clue me in? I know years ago we were led to believe once you started you were immediately addicted, but I rather doubt that is true.

you pretty well nailed it for me too JLM, don't have a clue about drug use, not interested, don't even think
about it and never will, but the world is in a terrible mess because of drug use, that is enough for me to know how damaging it is, and addicts will get the money for their drugs anyway, anyhow, irrespective of who
it hurts.

yes, for the 'few' who cannot drink responsibly. families can be ruined, emotional problems for
spouses and children and the lack of money for everyday living expenses, same thing as drugs, alchoholics
will get the money from anyone, anytime as 'they' come first.

tobacco is risky to the health of the user, but doesn't really harm anyone else if smoker uses his habit away
from others.
so, I do not consider tobacco as harmful as drugs and alchohol.

I consider drug use riskier because it affects the whole country because of the crime deaths, gangs,
drug lords, smuggling, and generally makes people involved look weak and miserable, and the suppliers look
greedy, and a detrement to the good of the country, and a drain on the police force, and dangerous to
the innocent because of break n entry and general theft to obtain money for drugs.