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>> Well, alcohol is more dangerous than cannabis.
>> It's virtually impossible to kill yourself with an overdose of
>> cannabis. With alcohol
>> it's fairly easy. You can die from an acute overdose, from chronic
>> overdosing and you can even die from the withdrawal symptoms.
>> Alcohol will permanently destroy your mind and body when you abuse it
>> and cannabis doesn't inflict that kind of damage upon people who abuse
>> it. Compared to alcohol, cannabis has a very wide margin of safety.
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> You are clearly an enthusiastic supporter of cannabis, picking and
> choosing your evidence to support your proposition. However there is very
> good evidence that cannabis can also inflict damage to the minds of those
> who mis-use it. It'd take a good deal more study than has been done to
> truly compare the potential for damage of the two drugs. In the meantime
> your statement: "Compared to alcohol, cannabis has a very wide margin of
> safety" is a statement of belief, not scientific fact.