Why Marijuana is Safer than Alcohol?
Colorado is a state with inhabitants which few years ago drunk much more hard drinks than today. However, now they are more likely to smoke spot.
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health argued that Colorado was the only state in which alcohol use was decreased.
Excessive alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States and is associated with multiple adverse health results, including liver cirrhosis, various cancers, unintentional injuries, and violence.
Meanwhile, Colorado is one of seven states that scored “significant” increases in teens and adults who say they are more likely to smoke pot at least once a month than those who participated in the last survey.
Mason Tvert, executive director of the Denver-based pot-legalization group Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, said: “We’ve been saying for some time that many adults want a safer alternative to drinking”.
He added that the price of pot is inflated because of criminalization. Still, people seeking to get intoxicated perceive they get a better deal sitting at home smoking a little pot than going out and spending $30 at a bar to get drunk.
This study also showed that Colorado leads the nation in the increase in people 12 or older who smoked a cigarette in the previous month, from 26.5 percent to 29.8 percent.
Researchers also put Colorado among the top 10 states for:
• The highest illegal drug use in every age category;
• Failure of teens and adults who need alcohol treatment to receive it.
Iowa had the lowest estimate, at 5.2 percent, and Rhode Island had the highest, 12.5 percent.
Marijuana is the most popular illicit drug nationwide, as an estimated 10.2 percent of teenagers and adults used it at least once in the previous year, the survey found.
However, alcohol is still the vice of choice among Americans. The survey found also that 51 percent had a drink in the past month, while 5.9 percent used marijuana during that span.
The findings are based on hour-long interviews with more than 135,000 confused selected people nationwide.
Coloradans consider that smoking marijuana is safer than drinking hard drinks, and even statistics are agreed with them. They show that about 3 million violent crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense.
Two-thirds of victims who suffered violence by an intimate (a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend) reported that alcohol had been a factor.
Among spouse victims, 3 out of 4 incidents were reported to have involved an offender who had been drinking.
