Fair enough, "months" might be an exaggeration. But "weeks" is still a pretty long time to deal with the drug. It is certainly not true that "alcohol is one o

Fair enough, "months" might be an exaggeration. But "weeks" is still a pretty long time to deal with the drug. It is certainly not true that "alcohol is one of the only known drugs for which withdrawal can be fatal." In reality, any other GABA receptor agonist would have the same behavior, for the same reasons. There are plenty of them known: barbituates, benzodiazepines, valerian, and a ton of other sedatives they developed in the 70s and have been gradually phasing out ever since. In fairness, it is certainly true that withdrawal from marijuana is never fatal. But you really have to be using alcohol in enormous amounts pretty much constantly to ever be at risk of delirium tremens. The eqivalent behavior for marijuana would expose you to the same level of lung cancer risk as a two-pack-a-day smoker, and for the same reasons.