How Does Cannabis Stack Up Against Tobacco and Alcohol?
Cannabis users constantly whinge that it is not fair to maintain their drug of choice as a classified drug when both alcohol and tobacco are legal and (they say) much more harmful. But for children, both these claims are false. Of course alcohol and tobacco are harmful, which is why they are NOT LEGAL for public consumption by children. And by comparison, cannabis is many many times more dangerous, both physically and mentally. Like alcohol, cannabis is an intoxicant. In other words, they both poison the body. But, whilst even large amounts of water soluble alcohol disappear from the body in under 24 hours, one spliff of cannabis, which dissolves in fat, stays in the tissues of the body for weeks and even for up to two months. Alcohol, because of its wide usage (it is drunk by more than ten times as many people as use cannabis) has a violent image, and studies show that alcohol users are 3 times more likely to be violent than non-drinkers. On the other hand, cannabis users claim it is
