Alcohol is readily available, as are other drugs, and everyone is not always drunk or high as it is. If Marijuana were legalized, it would be regulated, and it would be easier to get. It could be sold at pharmacies, or at specially licensed stores, such as the LCBO in Ontario, ...
Maine is the first state to outlaw alcohol. 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act is passed, forming the Food and Drug Administration. First time that drugs have any government oversight. 1913California, apparently, passes the first state marijuana law, though missed by many because it referred to “...
Marijuana legalization proponents often argue that cannabis should be treated like alcohol – legal to use, but illegal to drive while impaired. But how do you enforce that? With alcohol, decades of science have given us procedures and tests to determine the blood-alcohol level at which a drive...
WHILE WE TOLERATE ALCOHOL, WHICH CAUSES MORE HARM, WHY DO WE BAN MARIJUANA?FRANK PARLATO JR. Special to The News
withmarijuananow. Imagine a world where liquor is the only alcohol available. You have the choice of either not drinking at all or getting much drunker than you would like to. This is the situation for many marijuana smokers today. People didn’t stop drinking during prohibition, and the ...
The costs of legalizing marijuana would not only be financial. New marijuana users would not be limited to adults if marijuana were legalized, just as regulations on alcohol and tobacco do not prevent use by youth. Rapidly accumulating new research shows that marijuana use is associated with incr...
At the same time, the sale of alcohol is prohibited. The reason is that it is dangerous to mix alcohol with marijuana. For sure, coffee shops are also prohibited to sell cannabis to minors or people who are not residents of the Netherlands. However, the last prohibition can vary from re...
It is also beyond all dispute that marijuana is much, much safer than alcohol, so the fundamental fairness dictates that if alcohol is legal, marijuana should be legal as well, without a question.
Other than that, there is little convincing evidence of acute or long termhealth risksof cannabis use, and there is certainly nowhere near the risks of using alcohol, which is not on the banned substance list. Many people die due to alcohol poisoning each year, and that simply does not hap...
alcohol abuse is considered one of the major problems parents are facing when it comes to their teenage children. It has been a fact that teens abuse alcohol more than any other substance. The use of the illegal drug marijuana has also been a major problem parents and society as well are ...