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Originally posted by Gothic-chick
Each year in the United states the FACTS are.....
Alcohol kills about 80,000 Marijuana kills 0.
Personally I think in moderation Booze and pot are both ways to escape or enhance any situation.
But in the hands of an addict, booze ruins lives and pot makes you unmotivated.
I've witnessed both of the scenarios and I have to say if I had to choose between having an alcoholic or a pothead in my life I'll take the pothead any day!
Hell, I'd take 2 or 3 potheads over an alcoholic!
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I agree, and have not dissagred that alocohol does kill many thousands of people each year. As for saying weed kills '0' people each year, I think you'll find that figure completely wrong and missleading.
With alcohol abuse, the syptoms and damaging effects are far more apparant... the damage that alocohol does to the body can be seen, be it looking unhealthy, bad mood swings and being socialy unaceptable. What you see with marijuana abuse is not apparant. It is far more difficult to see that someone is abusing their body and causing damage, simply because the only long term apparant effects are not visible, i.e. lung and respiratory damage.
Now, going back to the above point. The figures for Yearly death results, due to alcohol and marijuana never take into account long term abuse, they only show year on year figures. What you will find though, is the weed 'death' figure should actually be much higher than it is, due to this fact, that the long term lung disease it causes is far less apparant. People who are dying today from lung disease include a large proportion of people who smoked weed during the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s right upto this more recent decade...this is long term disease, something of which is continuing but goes unnoticed by the general public , unless made aware. This is also the reason why the figures for weed smoking deaths is so missleading. Government figures do not and never take this fact into account, because all Government lung disease figures are put down as smoking cigarettes or polution related.
So how many people die each year from Lung disease, due to smoking cigarettes and weed in combination, from previous years long term abuse.......I dont know a figure off hand, but I can assure you it is far greater than those that die of alcohol abuse. Why do you think that politicians world wide are now lobbying Governments to take these figures more seriously, because they now recognise that all types of smoked substances have always been the major factor in long term unaccountable lung disease figures, and always will, so long as people continue to smoke these substances. Unless change is made.