From what I understand, you are putting smoking and drinking alcohol in the same league as using softdrugs like marijuana.
Tobacco and alcohol are drugs as well.
Let's compare consuming alcohol and smoking marijuana.
Alcohol is detrimental to your health when consumed excessively. When used moderately and thoughtfully, it will not have long-lasting effect. Neither will marijuana, but here's the catch.
A beer or a glass of wine, or even two or more will not have the same effect as quickly.
Wrong, that's making the assumption you can't use marijuana "moderately and thoughtfully".
I've been smoking for a long time, and I've been cutting my consumption down a lot during the past couple of years. You can choose the amount of pot you put in a joint, or smoke one joint and take breaks, making it last longer instead of smoking it like a cigaret. You can share a joint with your friends, the more you are the less you smoke etc...
Plus you'll never "suffer the same effects" of alcohol by smoking pot, as you'll never "suffer the same effects" of pot by drinking alcohol. They act differently, they are different products, they have different effects.
Alcohol is not as addictive as marijuana. You need higher doses to suffer from the same effects as from a single joint. If you smoke a joint, you're gonna end up high or at least a little impaired.
And marijuana itself is not addictive. As previously said I've been smoking for a long time, and today, I haven't smoked a puff on a single joint during a week, and I don't feel any need to smoke one at all. Tho I smoke cigarets, but that's another story.
Another point about comparing alcohol and marijuana : alcohol is neurodestructive, marijuana isn't. THC (the pot molecule that makes you high) stays on your synapses but doesn't deteriorate their "structure", it takes a while but if you stop smoking it goes without leaving any damage, alcohol leaves irreversible damage to your neurones, it destroys them.
Last edited by deprav; Sep 1, 2013 at 06:46 PM.