The following are statistics on Alcohol vs. Marijuana 1. Over 100 thousand deaths annually are directly linked to acute alcohol poisoning. In 4,000 years of recorded history, no one has ever died from a pot overdose. Alcohol causes physical and psychology dependence. Alcohol is reported to cause temporary and permanent damage to all major organs of the body.
Cannabis is a much less violent provoking substance than alcohol.
With over 60 million people using cannabis in the U.S. today our laws and law makers should view it under the same light as they do alcohol. Encyclopedia Year Book 1993. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs. Chelsea House Publishers.