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Pot Versus Alcohol: Experts Say Booze Is the Bigger Danger
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Speaking privately with Richard Nixon in 1971, the late Art Linkletter offered this view on the use of marijuana versus alcohol. "When people smoke marijuana, they smoke it to get high. In every case, when most people drink, they drink to be sociable."
"That's right, that's right," Nixon agreed. "A person does not drink to get drunk A person drinks to have fun."
The following year Linkletter announced that he had reversed his position on pot, concluding instead that the drug's social harms were not significant enough to warrant its criminal prohibition. Nixon however stayed the course -- launching the so-called "war" on drugs, a social policy that now results in the arrest of more than 800,000 Americans each year for violating marijuana laws.
Decades later, the social debate regarding the use of marijuana versus alcohol rages on. Yet among objective experts who have studied the issue there remains little debate at all. Despite pot's long-standing criminalization, scientists agree that the drug possesses far less harm than its legal and celebrated companion, alcohol.
After quantifying the harms associated with both drugs, the researchers concluded: "Overall, most of these risks (associated with marijuana) areFor example, in the mid-1990s, the World Health Organization commissioned a team of experts to compare the health and societal consequences of marijuana use compared to other drugs, including alcohol, nicotine, and opiates. small to moderate in size. In aggregate they are unlikely to produce public health problems comparable in scale to those currently produced by alcohol and tobacco On existing patterns of use, cannabis poses a much less serious public health problem than is currently posed by alcohol and tobacco in Western societies."
French scientists at the state medical research institute INSERM published a similar review in 1998. Researchers categorized legal and illegal drugs into three distinct categories: Those that pose the greatest threat to public health, those that pose moderate harms to the public, and those substances that pose little-to-no danger. Alcohol, heroin, and cocaine were placed in the most dangerous category, while investigators determined that cannabis posed the least danger to public health.
In 2002, a special Canadian Senate Committee completed an exhaustive review of marijuana and health, concluding, "Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and public health issue."
In 2007, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare hired a team of scientists to assess the impact of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs on public health. Researcher reported that the consumption of alcohol was significant contributors to death and disease. "Alcohol harm was responsible for 3.2 percent of the total burden of disease and injury in Australia," they concluded. By comparison, cannabis use was responsible for zero deaths and only 0.2 percent of the estimated total burden of disease and injury in Australia.
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Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids and the Brain
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I and many others I know have been saying this fact, have been writing papers with this and other such facts.
All of which, the U.S.A government has mis-informed the people since 'Marijuana Madness' decades ago, then the reason was a racist agenda by that government. The message being that 'Jazz' music was 'evil' & as it was -evil- black folk who played good Jazz music, then by association they were evil. This originally used on Mexican ~peasants, and before that the Chinese explosion experts who blew the tunnels through mountains for the Steam-Train that was the new vehicle for travelling further & faster. But as a product Hemp is the number one for Essential fatty acids, in exact ratio for humans & the body is able to 'uptake' these 'Essential food-stuff. Moreover, plantation's of Hemp (grown for the fiber or for flowers),reflect the Ozone back into outer-space, whence it came. It has many others positives on Co2, the soil, NO Floods, clothes that do stop 95% of the suns U.V-rays, best that can be achieved with man made textiles is between 2% - 30% thereabouts. Hemp can treble this highest figure without tightly weaved thread. The earth benefits from the growing of hemp, besides the farmers being able to get their teeth into the job at hand, and hemp does not need rotating like other crops. Strongest ropes, best building materials for house building, hemp stronger than steel as shown by Henry Ford decades ago, when he made the first car out of Hemp. Also, hemp made the sustainable fuel. So why was it not seized upon back then, well J.A.Anslinger, Dupont and Hearst had invested vast sums of money into producing Nylon rope & other nylon products. If not banned, with the advent of the 'Decorter' hemp would have ruined these three afore mentioned men and their business's. Hence the Tax Act of 1937. And the rest is the criminalization of mankind.irra