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Marijana or Alcohol

What did you prefer: Marijuana or Alcohol

  • Marijuana

    Votes: 24 33.3%
  • Alcohol

    Votes: 32 44.4%
  • neither

    Votes: 16 22.2%

  • Total voters
    72
I'm sick of the notion that people who smoke pot are not cool...I'm sure all of you enjoy your ipods, Steve Jobs founded apple while smoking daily. Ted Turner still smokes daily. Pot doesn't sap your motivation, an unmotivated person who smokes is gonna remain unmotivated...just like a stupid person who smokes pot is going to remain stupid.

From my experience those who haven't tried pot and feel it should be illegal are labelled as not cool. I've been harassed for my views and the fact that I have no desire to put illegal drugs in my body. Pot smoking does negatively affect the brain even after the high is gone.
 
From my experience those who haven't tried pot and feel it should be illegal are labelled as not cool. I've been harassed for my views and the fact that I have no desire to put illegal drugs in my body. Pot smoking does negatively affect the brain even after the high is gone.

That is different.

I haven't tried pot but I could give two tosses if it is legal. I prefer it legal and regulated than illegal and a black market forming. It's not going into my body.

That view is enforced by the simple fact alcohol is legal. If Alcohol was made illegal then weed shouldn't :shrug:
 
Hey if you have never drank nor smoked pot, more power to you. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It's actually good thing, lol. I'm just surprised. Even Jesus drank wine.

I bet he smoked weed too:2razz:

Edit to say: digs, smoking pot or not has nothing to do with the cool factor as their are losers in both groups.
 
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I'll take alcohol over marajuana because with alcohol I don't have to worry about my weed having LSD or PCP sprinkled on it. It's never really just weed in the bag anymore.

LSD degrades rapidly in sunlight, so lighting it on fire would destroy it immediately. PCP laced weed is extremely rare but it does make it's rounds. I think it would be a safe bet that 95% of marijuana on the street is unadulterated marijuana. People just smoke really bad pot then end up with really good stuff and think it's laced.

Marijuana for me, I dont like alot of alcohol especially being a pharmacology student.
 
Definately booze for me. Tried pot a few times and it never did much of anything for me. Plus alcohol can be enjoyed moderately. I can have a glass of wine with my wife for dinner, or do a shot with my brother when we're playing cards, or have a mixed drink or two when I'm out at a bar or club and not get hammered. You smoke weed, you're getting high. It's kinda the sole point of weed.

Though, for those talking about weed being laced with other things you're not aware of. Legalization would easily remove that possibility. Just one more reason why forcing something people are always going to want onto the blackmarket sucks.
 
I've only tried alcohol and never plan to ever try weed. I've also never tried cigarettes or cigars. Smoking anything just seems like a very bad idea to me, plus, pretty much all those things smell completely awful. Along with this, pot is illegal and it is not allowed while in the military. Even the reserves have drug tests. Finally, I really just don't want to use it or any other drug for that matter. I generally can't stand to take otc meds and absolutely hate Rx meds.

I really don't drink a lot of alcohol, and anytime I do I regret it enough to not do it again for at least a couple of years. I stick to about 1 drink a day max, but usually have 1 every month or two.
 
Doesn't surprise me at all that the majority of people would choose the far more dangerous substance...It's the laws fault though.
 
It happened to me in college and I almost died. I ve never touched that **** again. Dude it happens MANY times.

In 20 years of smoking I've never seen it happen to anyone.
 
weed.......
 
Back in your prime, or even now, what did you find yourself enjoying more??

I've done both - prefer how alcohol effects me.
Haven't drunk in a while, though - it's inconvenient to be out of the loop and unavailable - not to mention how sickly I feel after. . . and doing anything alone is no fun - my husband can't handle anything.
 
In 20 years of smoking I've never seen it happen to anyone.

Same here, besides that's only a case for legalization...someone mentioned it earlier, you regulate it then you will not have to worry about someone lacing your weed with crack. One thing I think people fail to realize is just how easy it is for people, including kids, to get weed. I live in a small Southern town and there are several people just within our town of 6,000 who deal, they don't ask for your ID either so you know youngsters are buying. It's much easier to aquire weed when your underage then it is to aquire Alcohol and Tobacco.
 
Doesn't surprise me at all that the majority of people would choose the far more dangerous substance...It's the laws fault though.

You really can't blame that one on the law. Even in countries where pot is legal or decriminalized, alcohol user rates soar above marijuana rates. Alcohol has been mankind's preferred drug of intoxication for centuries.

Same here, besides that's only a case fo legalization...someone mentioned it earlier, you regulate it then you will not have to worry about someone lacing your weed with crack. One thing I think people fail to realize is just how easy it is for people, including kids, to get weed. I live in a small Southern town and there are several people just within our town of 6,000 who deal, they don't ask for your ID either so you know youngsters are buying. It's much easier to aquire weed when your underage then it is to aquire Alcohol and Tobacco.

My experience does agree with this point. When I was in high school, you had to get a fake ID or find someone of age to buy booze for you. If you wanted illegal drugs all you needed was to know who to go to and to have the necessary cash.

I wasn't a druggie or party guy at all in high school, but even I knew who one of the dealers in school was and I was friends with several other regular drug users who easily could've put me in touch with their dealers if I asked.

While kids do regularly get their hands on both alcohol and illegal drugs, illegal drugs is usually much easier and hassle free.
 
AFP: Alcohol more harmful than heroin, crack cocaine: study

LONDON — Alcohol is more harmful than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, a new study said Monday.

Scientists looked at the dangers to both the individual and to wider society and found that alcohol was the most dangerous substance, according to the study by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD).

The results fly in the face of long-held opinions about which drugs pose the greatest dangers, with the authors claiming they demonstrate "the present drug classification systems have little relation to the evidence of harm."

"They also accord with the conclusions of previous expert reports that aggressively targeting alcohol... is a valid and necessary public health strategy," said the authors.

Drug experts on the committee devised their own system to judge substances and believe their consensus provides a valuable assessment which could guide policymakers.

The research, published in medical journal The Lancet, looked at the how much a drug harms the human body as well as other factors such as what its use costs the health care and prison systems.

Heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine -- or crystal meth -- were found to be the most deadly. But when the wider social effects were factored in, alcohol was the most dangerous, followed by heroin and crack cocaine, said the study.

While I don't agree with the policy angle, the facts are still interesting.
 
It's not what I enjoy more, but rather which is more harmful and costly. Personally, the data suggests that less physical harm occurs because of marijuana than either tobacco or alcohol.
 
It's not what I enjoy more, but rather which is more harmful and costly. Personally, the data suggests that less physical harm occurs because of marijuana than either tobacco or alcohol.

A note on the tobacco: it's not smoking *the* tobacco that nets the harm - it's the junk they add *too* the cigarettes.

Curious - if they popularize and legalize marijuana and legitimately started to produce it in readily available quantities what makes then *think* that weed won't be tainted like they've done to my stogies? Cigarettes *didn't always* have all that extra crap added to them. The extra chemicals were added to make them *more* addictive.

Well - if weed isn't inherently addictive (as in - chemically) - then what's really there to ensure that people continue to buy and use (think of it from a business-profit churcning perspective). I see quick opportunity to add in this-and-thats - make it officially addictive - and then rope people in as users rather than enjoyers of said substances.

In order to prevent that from being the case they'd have to heavily regulate - and there's only so much regulation a state can do over it's commercial-enterprises.
 
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I wasn't suggesting that marijuana should be legalized. I was comparing the three. However, I am in favor of legalizing marijuana for medicinal use. It provides the kind of benefits to people that can only be found in other drugs that are more harmful. In some cases, such a nausea in treatment of cancer patients, it cannot be as effective in any other drugs. I would not deny such aid to those who are ill.
 
I wasn't suggesting that marijuana should be legalized. I was comparing the three. However, I am in favor of legalizing marijuana for medicinal use. It provides the kind of benefits to people that can only be found in other drugs that are more harmful. In some cases, such a nausea in treatment of cancer patients, it cannot be as effective in any other drugs. I would not deny such aid to those who are ill.

But you're not comparing a pure or natural tobacco - you're comparing a spiked tobacco product to a natural product.

If you were to examine types of tobaccos that are leaf - and not tainted with additives - then what would the results be?

(edit - they should be termed, here . . . *you*, snbl, didn't do this research and study - they did)
 
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It should be written what do you prefere, to live 20 or 40 years lesser.

there is absolutlly nothing dangerous about pot. the only reason people think that is because they first tested it with a gas mask which fills withsmoke and no oxogen gets to your brain and brain cells die. and it slightly decreases lung capacity. other than that, there is nothing wrong with it. im not telling you smoke or not to smoke, im just presenting the facts.
 
psst!! this thread died a year and a half ago. It is unlikely these people will see your responses to them
 
psst!! this thread died a year and a half ago. It is unlikely these people will see your responses to them

I was going to keep this thread going, but then I got high...
 
It's not what I enjoy more, but rather which is more harmful and costly. Personally, the data suggests that less physical harm occurs because of marijuana than either tobacco or alcohol.

Right. 17 states have legalized.
 
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