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The alcohol and cannabis comparison is flawed. Alcohol CAN be enjoyed simply as a beverage rather than as a drug (e.g. I have never seen my mother finish her second drink over a 50 year period). Cannabis is ALWAYS enjoyed as a drug even when used medicinally. Full disclosure: I enjoy both of them as drugs.

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I don't think so. I've certainly seen folks take a coupla puffs & then pass. Not what I usually do to be sure. But back when my liver could handle alcohol I didn't stop at one drink either. I think you're confused by words. We tend to call pot a drug but not alcohol. But that's just word usage. One can drink NA beer if one only wants the beverage experience. Most folks drink the kind with alcohol. 'Cause they want the effect, possibly in a light sort of way, just a little more relaxed etc

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Exactly, which is why my mother purchases no/low alcohol beer in the summertime. I was referring to wine and the hard stuff.

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You're blowing smoke to try to confuse people. The use of the drug alcohol is so much more likely to lead to catastrophe than cannabis use that there is utterly no comparison.

How many people do you claim cannabis kills in a year? The figure for alcohol has skyrocketed in recent years to well over 100,000 lives a year, many of them innocent victims of murder and drunk driving murder.

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Couldn't agree with you more. Let's treat alcohol like they did during Prohibition and see how it goes. I don't claim any number when it comes to cannabis but I was stoned enough times as a teenager to know that it is every bit as dangerous as alcohol.

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Lol I donтАЩt think you know what a drug is. If my friend has a beverage containing THC and doesnтАЩt finish it they are still ingesting a drug. Your mom is ingesting a drug even if sheтАЩs not getting *twisted* and alcohol is always enjoyed as a drug too bc water and other beveragesтАжexist ЁЯла

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You clearly don't know what a drug is.

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a drug is defined as тАЬa medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.тАЭ so advil is a drug as much as heroin as much as viagra as much as alcohol as much as nicotine as much as ketamine. commonly used in contexts like тАЬthe war on drugsтАЭ to indicate тАЬa substance taken that affects mood or behavior that is taken for its physiological effects (sophoriphic, stimulant, analgesic, etc.)тАЭ. alcohol meets this definition, as does mdma, as does heroin, as does oxycodone, as does prozac. thanks for your input ЁЯШК big statement, really glad you didnтАЩt try to back it up.

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Ah, so that's what you're talking about. I thought we were talking about beer and weed.

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