Marijuana | Tobacco | Alcohol |
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Marijuana | Tobacco | Alcohol |
Low AddictionPossibilityIt is estimated that 9 percent of people who use marijuana will become dependent on it. | ExtremelyAddictiveRoughly 26% of us started losing control over continued smoking after just 3 to 4 cigarettes, rising to 44% after smoking 5 to 9. | HighlyAddictiveStudy suggest 15% of alcohol users eventually will become dependent |
Difficulty of quitting ( Dependency rated from 0 to 3 points ) |
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Relatively easy – 1.51 points | Extremely hard – 2.21 points | Very hard – 1.93 points |
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“However, when it comes to withdrawal, alcohol is by far the worst of the three” said Mr. J. Wesley “Wes” Boyd, MD, PhD from faculty in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. | ||
Ties to Diseases ( or side effects) | ||
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Other Problems tied with Alcohol
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Potential Benefits |
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none 🙁 | Moderate alcohol consumption may provide some health benefits. It may:
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Some Long Term Psychological Effects in Predisposed | No Long Term Psychological Effects | Destroys The Brain Cells |
Doesn’t Induce Violence, Even more, there is study showing that it actually reduce domestic violence | Doesn’t Induce Violence | Can Induce Violence – Source |
Addictiveness, If Any
The first and the most obvious thing to mention when comparing three types of drugs, or substances people consume, is how likely they are to get you hooked. With addiction, the likeliness for the nasty effects to come and haunt you is almost certain, and with addiction, people don’t have to deal only with the adverse effects of long term drug usage, but with the addiction itself. Of the three drugs mentioned, cannabis is the least addictive.Health Concerns
This is where the big difference between tobacco, alcohol and marijuana really start to show. It’s an undeniable truth that tobacco causes lung cancer, although every organ on the path it takes to get to the lungs is also at risk of developing cancer. Alcohol has been tied to esophageal and liver cancer, as well as breast cancer in women. Marijuana, on the other hand, has been used to help people fight cancer. Still, it’s needed to make it very clear that smoking is bad, and it doesn’t really matter if you’re smoking cannabis or marijuana. In both cases you’ll get some really small and nasty particles into your lungs, and those are very, very bad for you. However, because marijuana is not highly addictive, and because it’s expensive, and because there’s really no reason to chain-smoke it, it is considered to be less damaging. Plus, you can always vape marijuana, or eat it, to reduce the harm to zero, and you can’t vape tobacco, and you’ll poison yourself if you try to eat it, so don’t try it. Seriously, don’t. You could die. Of course, cancer is not the only disease tied to alcohol and tobacco, in fact, the list would probably be too long to read. On the other hand, marijuana is linked to far less health concerns, and even those are less serious. There is a case to be made that marijuana usage among those predisposed to psychosis might hasten its onset, and there have been studies showing that marijuana usage among teens isn’t that good for the development of their brains. And while tobacco is pretty safe in this zone if the damage which it causes to blood vessels that will eventually affect your brain is disregarded, alcohol can induce psychosis in completely healthy, non-predisposed people. In fact, the effects of long term alcohol use on the brain can be devastating.Fatality
There hasn’t been a single recorded case of marijuana overdose that resulted in death. On the other hand, the amount of alcohol or tobacco that will kill you can be bought in any store which sells tobacco and alcohol. The fact is that marijuana is the safest drug there is, when looked through the ratio between the amounts that are usually used, and the amounts that are needed to kill you. Alcohol is the least safe, in front of heroin and cocaine. Tobacco is just behind cocaine. In addition I’ll bring small infographic showing annual death numbers for those substances
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