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Americans finally understand that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol
- fourbeard 13y agoAmericans apparently don't understand that daily use of marijuana will damage your brain.
- dalke 13y agoNor is the article trying to convince people otherwise. It cites a recent medical study: > A 2010 study in the journal Lancet, for instance, graded common drugs on sixteen criteria relating to how harmful the drugs were to users, and how harmful they were to society overall. On both measures - harm to self and harm to users - marijuana scored significantly lower than alcohol. It links to the Lancet site, and if you don't want to register, the article is available from http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_OLD/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_OLD/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf . It ranks cannabis as safe than alcohol, but not as safe as ecstasy, LSD, or khat, and a few other drugs. It doesn't say cannabis or any of the other drugs are safe or have no side effects.