I assume you mean the effects on health, job loss, family problems and violence/injuries/deaths? Health, obviously alcohol is worse. Job loss, who knows? Could be weed, that plus the fact that a lot of smokers can't even get a job in the first place. They're equal there IMO. Alcohol probably causes more family problems but weed causes problems too.
Violence/injuries and deaths is a tough one just because weed is illegal and the illegal drug trade obviously claims lots of victims. So...untill it's legal, you can't completely discount that factor in evaluating it's effects on society. Of course if it was legal and sold safely then I'd imagine the crime surrounding it would fall directly in line with crime surrounding the trade of any other legal drug-not non-existant, but still present. Obviously alcohol would take first place in accidents and family violence.
Oh, then there's also the problem of people who are on probation, parole or being supervised by DHS-those people can't use ANY intoxicants, legal or not. So...if they fail drug tests, obviously they go back to jail/prison or in the case of DHS, can't see thier kids. So...that affects society in general whether weed is legal or not, as it will NEVER be ok for those people in those situations to use it. It's FAR from problem-free.
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I assume you mean the effects on health, job loss, family problems and violence/injuries/deaths? Health, obviously alcohol is worse. Job loss, who knows? Could be weed, that plus the fact that a lot of smokers can't even get a job in the first place. They're equal there IMO. Alcohol probably causes more family problems but weed causes problems too.
Violence/injuries and deaths is a tough one just because weed is illegal and the illegal drug trade obviously claims lots of victims. So...untill it's legal, you can't completely discount that factor in evaluating it's effects on society. Of course if it was legal and sold safely then I'd imagine the crime surrounding it would fall directly in line with crime surrounding the trade of any other legal drug-not non-existant, but still present. Obviously alcohol would take first place in accidents and family violence.
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lol i doubt many people get hurt or killed over a couple grams of weed lol
Oh, then there's also the problem of people who are on probation, parole or being supervised by DHS-those people can't use ANY intoxicants, legal or not. So...if they fail drug tests, obviously they go back to jail/prison or in the case of DHS, can't see thier kids. So...that affects society in general whether weed is legal or not, as it will NEVER be ok for those people in those situations to use it. It's FAR from problem-free.