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As a large bonus: it's healthier for the user and those around them too.
by kadoban 2y ago
As a large bonus: it's healthier for the user and those around them too.
- littlestymaar 2y agoDepends a lot on how you consume it: if you smoke it, then it's more harmful than alcohol just because of the combustion phenomenon. By other means it's true that it's less harmful than alcohol in average, but there's a big caveat for people with a psychiatric background in their family, as the risk of drug induces mental health issue (schizophrenia) can be very high in that case.
- kadoban 2y ago> if you smoke it, then it's more harmful than alcohol just because of the combustion phenomenon. Even then it's not. Alcohol is remarkably bad for you.
- littlestymaar 2y agoYou underestimate how harmful inhaling combustion products is. That doesn't mean alcohol isn't bad.
- pineaux 2y agoIts a myth that alcohol does not induce psychosis. Just like using weed everyday, using alcohol everyday can induce a psychosis. Even when in moderate amounts. That being said. I think cannabis does something to motivation of people that alcohol does not.
- ben_w 2y agoAs can software engineers' drug of choice: caffeine. I found out, years after deciding to cut back on my coffee intake, that my dose was in that range: when the only thing you drink is instant coffee (as in, not even plain water) and you're making it will multiple table spoons per cup instead of teaspoons…
- throwaway71229 2y agoPassive smoking is not healthy, plus I'd trust more on the wheel someone who just drank a glass of beer over someone who just smoked a cannabis joint. Not to mention the stench of weed smokers...
- kadoban 2y agoYou'd prefer the lovely smells and sounds of angry, vomiting drunks with poor impulse control?
- hackernewds 2y agoFewer people with a drink and vomit on them, then the instant stench that pervades every piece of furniture
- ben_w 2y agoI'm not aware of a standardised unit of weed, but there is one for alcohol. For this specific reason, I expect higher variation from weed — though I also wouldn't trust either to drive a car.
- leptons 2y agoOne beer and one entire joint are not equivalent in levels of intoxication. Try 6 beers vs 1 entire joint and maybe you're getting somewhere close to equivalence in level of intoxication. Most people don't smoke an entire joint in one sitting. All it takes is about 3 or 4 puffs and that's typically enough for quite a while. That's the equivalent of about 2 beers. And I'd trust someone more behind the wheel that had a few puffs of a joint vs. someone who just drank 2 or 3 beers. The kind of intoxication is very different between alcohol and THC. There is no way to do a 1:1 comparison as far as effects on driving ability. They each act on very different pathways, and produce different results. Marijuana also never made anyone pass out while driving from smoking too much, but alcohol definitely can do that.
- choko 2y agoMany people use marijuana for sleep. Are you really sure no one has ever fallen asleep at the wheel due to marijuana use? It seems like a bold claim.
- ed_mercer 2y agoI doubt breathing in carcinogens is better than drinking them.
- kadoban 2y agoSpecifically for alcohol and cannabis it is. There are healthier ways to take cannabis thankfully as well.
- gattilorenz 2y ago[citation needed]