Fifty-one percent (51%) of American adults say alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 19% disagree and say pot is worse.
But 25% say both are equally dangerous. Just two percent (2%) say neither is dangerous.
Younger adults are more likely than their elders to view alcohol as the more dangerous of the two.
Nationally, 41% of likely voters think the United States should legalize and tax marijuana, but 49% are opposed.
President Obama’s new drug czar Gil Kerlikowske has signaled a shift away from the decades-old war on drugs toward more emphasis on health treatment for drug users. However, 54% of voters say illegal drug use is primarily a criminal justice issue rather than a matter of public health.
rbg, did you notice that in the study, they found tobacco smoke causes chromosome damage while cannabis smoke did not.
also, the study is done by sticking some animal cells and bacteria with smoke. i wonder if that is anything like the monkey trials that they did decades ago whereby they actually suffocated the monkey by depriving it of oxygen and then claimed the pot smoke could kill the monkey.
what sort of DNA damage occurs with the cannabis smoke in a real human being that can breath air between being immersed in smoke?
ill tell you what i know, the longer term cannabis smoker gets some change occurring. pre cancer cells that is, which do not seem to turn into cancer cells.
so much for this study that “shows” cannabis smoke is more harmful than tobacco smoke. i wonder how long it will be till we see all these licensed medical cannabis users dropping dead from the smoke?
what with all the fuss about how its so bad, you would think you would see some effects within the year, as you would with all the other legal drugs that we pay a thousand dollars a month for a prescription.
as for the person that wants to see a pill form of cannabis. its out there. it just costs more per dose because it was “value” added.
the thing the government has decried is smoked cannabis as medicine. it would be federally legal by now if they had of asked for a non smoked form.
obviously cannabis is a medicine, they just do not want people to smoke their drugs. fair enough, but funnily enough, you didn’t go to jail for smoking tobbaco while your doctor was trying to treat you.
what is so criminal about sitting at home and having a joint?
the crime is that someone can come in with a gun and bust you because of the above kinds of studies.