Lies About Marijuana Drive People to a Much More Harmful Drug – Booze
Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Dakta Bourbon, Filed under Blog, Information, Medical. No Comments »
As many stoners do, I agree with the title. Before I was introduced to Mary Jane, I was a heavy drinker and the weekends never ended well for me. But now as a smoker, I don’t have to worry about the basic upsides, such as hangovers and blackouts, but this article says much more about the upsides of Cannabis over Alcohol.
Anti-pot propaganda drives most people to drink alcohol instead. But booze is far more dangerous than marijuana.
Professor David Nutt didn’t play the game. As the chief drug policy advisor in the British Government, an unspoken part of his job description was to help maintain a public fiction about marijuana – or cannabis, as it is known in the U.K. and other parts of the world. Specifically, he was expected to further the misperception of cannabis as a substance worthy of being classified and prohibited in a manner similar to more dangerous drugs like heroin and cocaine.
He made a big mistake at the end of last month. In a lecture at King’s College in London, he spoke honestly – and truthfully – about the fact that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol and urged the government to factor the relative harms of substances into their policy-making. Moreover, he accused the British government of ignoring the evidence about the true harms of cannabis in order to reclassify the drug and increase penalties for possession.