MARIJUANA VS CIGARETTES

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Marijuana smokers generally don’t chain smoke, and so they smoke less. 

(Marijuana is not physically addictive like tobacco.) The more potent marijuana
is, the less a smoker will use at a time.

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Tobacco contains nicotine, and marijuana doesn’t.

Nicotine may harden the arteries and may be responsible for much of the heart disease caused by
tobacco. New research has found that it may also cause a lot of the cancer in tobacco smokers and

people who live or work where tobacco is smoked. This is because it breaks down into a cancer causing chemical called `N Nitrosamine’ when it is burned (and maybe even while it is inside the body as well.) 

Marijuana contains THC. THC is a bronchial dilator,

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which means it works like a cough drop and opens up your lungs, which aids clearance of smoke and dirt. Nicotine does just the opposite; it makes your lungs bunch up and makes it harder to cough anything up.  

There are benefits from marijuana (besides bronchial dilation) that you don’t get from tobacco. 

Mainly, marijuana makes you relax, which improves your health and well-being. 

 

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FOUR REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SMOKE WEED !!!!

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Marijuana is healthier than alcohol.

First of all, smoking weed rarely, if ever, results in uncontrollable projectile vomiting; drinking alcohol often does. How could our bodies make it any more clear than by literally forcing it out before having the chance to process it? The morning after consuming even a reasonable amount of alcohol involves painful symptoms in the form of a hangover. Comparably, minor lethargy is the worst symptom you’ll experience after a night of getting high on marijuana. But that’s just my own personal reasoning.

Weed smokers are mostly good people.

Obviously this is a matter of personal taste. For the most part, however, I genuinely like the vast majority of marijuana smokers I’ve met. While I learned the hard way in college that smoking weed doesn’t automatically make a person cool, I would say it’s nevertheless a reliable indicator. At the least, the ratio of people I meet vs. people I like is at misanthropic status compared to the alternative ratio for weed smokers. We tend to be more laid back and understanding. High-fives all around.

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Marijuana makes food taste better.

Enough said.  

Smoking weed [accidentally] cured my recurring migraines.

This is a funny little story, actually. I started suffering from migraines on an irregular but frequent basis beginning at 11-years-old. I would get at least one a month, but at most three to five in a week. They fucking sucked. The side effects of the only drug I was ever prescribed were only slightly favorable to the migraine itself. Not long thereafter, while still in high school, they stopped. I don’t even know how much time went by before I noticed. When I did, I chalked it up to a particularly nasty side-effect of puberty and didn’t put much further thought into it.

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Fast forward to the summer after graduation. The lifeguarding job for which I was hired required a drug test. Accordingly, I decided to stop smoking weed for a month prior to taking the drug test. You see where I’m going with this. Couldn’t have been more than two weeks that passed before another migraine reared its ugly head. I still didn’t make the connection until a year or so later when I quit smoking for a month by my own volition. This resulted in another migraine, and was accompanied by the realization that smoking marijuana has to be the reason I don’t get them anymore. Score one for weed!

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ALCOHOL VS MARIJUANA

Alcohol use contributes to aggressive and violent behavior. Marijuana use does not.

Studies have repeatedly shown that alcohol, unlike marijuana, contributes to the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior. An article published in the Journal of Addictive Behaviors reported that "alcohol is clearly the drug with the most evidence to support a direct intoxication-violence relationship," whereas "cannabis reduces the likelihood of violence during intoxication."

Alcohol use is a major factor in violent crimes. Marijuana use is not.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimates that 25-30% of violent crimes in the United States are linked to the use of alcohol. According to a report from the U.S. Dept. of Justice, that translates to about 5,000,000 alcohol-related violent crimes per year. By contrast, the government does not even track violent acts specifically related to marijuana use, as the use of marijuana has not been associated with violence.

Alcohol use contributes to the likelihood of domestic abuse and sexual assault. Marijuana use does not.

Alcohol is a major contributing factor in the prevalence of domestic violence and sexual assault. This is not to say that alcohol causes these problems; rather, its use makes it more likely that an individual prone to such behavior will act on it.