Increasing Marijuana Use in High School Is Reported

Lung cancer kills.

 

You've given no evidence to support your opinion, especially as it applies to teens.

 

Is he pouting over his treatment on the various football threads?

 

No idea, thought he would have been all over this.

 

Alcohol is more harmful to the developing teen brain than marijuana:

http://phys.org/news157280425.html

Alcohol causes greater impairment of cognitive and decision making abilities:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16032411
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17497559

Alcohol is immeasurably incomparably more deadly:

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Causes_of_Death#sthash.iIzzqzi6.dpbs
http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/facts/alcohol/en/

Alcohol causes more long term brain damage:

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/7-ways-booze-more-dangerous-pot?page=0%2C1

Alcohol is more addictive, with far worse withdrawal problems, and people die from Alcohol overdoses but never marijuana:

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/7-ways-booze-more-dangerous-pot?page=0%2C1
http://www.drugsense.org/mcwilliams/www.marijuanamagazine.com/toc/addictiv.htm

And I could continue onward with plenty more reasons and links, but I don't feel like it.

 

Just once I would like to have a troll apologize to someone for making them waste their time googling shit for the troll that they are too lazy to do themselves.

 

Yeah, so what? Has no relevance to this discussion.

There is no proven link between marijuana and lung cancer. But, boy, booze sure has been linked to cancer and plenty of other deadly diseases--yet another reason why it's plainly more harmful.

 

Yes, I bow to the wisdom of drugwarfacts.org, alternet.org, drugsense.org, and marijuanamagazine.com.

The deadliness of marijuana vs. alcohol is not in dispute.

But, a couple of short term studies don't "prove" anything.

The one study used folks who smoke more than three joints per day on average. Of course their decision making didn't change. Their constantly stoned, and any damage has already been done.

Meanwhile, they took "social drinkers" and gave them alcohol. Of course their decision making was altered.

What do these studies tell us about alcohol vs. marijuana? Nothing. They don't claim to either, do they?

They are two different studies. To try to extrapolate what Stoney has, out of them, is not science, it's advocacy.

 

Acute effects of smoked marijuana on decision making, as assessed by a modified gambling task, in experienced marijuana users.

The acute effect of alcohol on decision making in social drinkers.

These studies are not similar.

 

Sounds like they're as similar as a glass of wine and a joint.

 

How are those not similar?

I suppose some folks will use a one-hitter, but isn't a joint a "single serving"?

 

Uh, what?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/01/heavy-marijuana-smoking-may-double-risk-of-lung-cancer-canadian-study-finds/