Sentences with phrase «alcohol than marijuana»

Not exact matches

Because alcohol consumption is more harmful to people than marijuana use, but the two are substitutes, legalizing pot will lead customers to shift to the better of the two choices.

These costs seem particularly exorbitant when dealing with the drug marijuana, as it is widely used, and is likely no more harmful than currently legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol.

But rather than fear marijuana, he says alcohol companies should consider the opportunities.

Many experts consider the leading drug that puts people away, marijuana, to be no more dangerous than alcohol.

Alcohol is worse than marijuana everyday of the year!

Six hundred thousand people were arrested in this country last year for possessing or selling marijuana, a drug most authorities regard as less harmful - than alcohol.

Alcohol and the War on Drugs have killed more people in the last 60 seconds than marijuana ever has in the last 5000 + years (0).

Alcohol causes exponentially more auto accidents than marijuana.

The alcohol industry generates more than $ 400 billion annually, but as more states begin to legalize marijuana, the cannabis industry is giving Big Alcohol a run for itsalcohol industry generates more than $ 400 billion annually, but as more states begin to legalize marijuana, the cannabis industry is giving Big Alcohol a run for itsAlcohol a run for its money.

This is easier to do with alcohol than a street drug like marijuana where the chemical content is unknown because it is unregulated, and the dose is often a surprise.

In the United States, adolescents with divorced parents drink alcohol earlier and report higher alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and drug use than their peers.

A 2012 study published by the Mayo Clinic found that users of marijuana have a smaller chance of developing an addiction to the drug than users of alcohol or tobacco.

So of the two I would rather see large quantities of marijuana use than alcohol.

It's far less dangerous than legal alcohol, I would much rather a society where alcohol was illegal and marijuana was legal if I thought we could do it (prohibition has proven we can't).

The green signal may have been sent in January when President Barack Obama told The New Yorker that marijuana was less dangerous than alcohol, opening the door for debate.

Examining more than 20 years of national data for U.S. adolescents, a research team led by Andrew Subica at the University of California, Riverside reports that adolescents have high prevalence of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use, and concerning rates of suicide - related thoughts and behaviors.

The risk of riding with an impaired driver was much higher for peer drivers than for older adult drivers (21 percent vs. 2.4 percent for marijuana, 17 percent vs. 4 percent for alcohol, and 5.4 percent vs. less than 1 percent for illicit drugs).

Researchers also found that synthetic marijuana users were two - and - a-half times more likely to develop drug dependence than those who used other drugs (but not alcohol).

Substance use was defined as use of illegal drugs (heroin, marijuana, cocaine, etc.), use of prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed or high risk alcohol use.

Alcohol outlets, however, were responsible for about four times more violent crimes during the 34 months of the study than those that sold marijuana (372 vs. 93).

More than half of Americans now support legalizing marijuana, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, and data from 2014 indicate a majority of Americans view alcohol as more damaging to a person's health than pot.

At particular risk were kids who used alcohol and marijuana at the same time: They were about 50 to 90 percent more likely to admit to unsafe driving than their peers who did not drink or smoke pot.

«Teen driving and marijuana use: More than one in four high school seniors drive after using alcohol or drugs, or ride with a driver who has.»

Males were more likely to have a marijuana and alcohol use disorder than females.

«Many youth tend to think that alcohol use has more consequences than marijuana use and therefore view marijuana use as safer than drinking,» D'Amico said.

While it is not harmless, marijuana causes less harm and involves less risk of dependence than alcohol, tobacco and drugs such as benzodiazepines (which are prescribed as sedatives), cocaine and heroin,» says Enzo Tagliazucchi, an addiction researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

On average, except in Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru, most people believe tobacco and alcohol are more harmful than marijuana.

Supporters for these cannabis businesses emphasized the benefits to the local economy, public health and social justice, casting marijuana as less harmful than alcohol.

The researchers reviewed more than 750 studies on marijuana and alcohol use and focused on 15 that specifically addressed the links between marijuana policies and drinking.

Teens who have fewer than three family dinners a week are 3.5 times more likely to have abused prescription drugs and to have used illegal drugs other than marijuana, three times more likely to have used marijuana, more than 2.5 times more likely to have smoked cigarettes, and 1.5 times more likely to have tried alcohol, according to the CASA report «While substance abuse can strike any family, regardless of ethnicity, affluence, age, or gender, the parental engagement fostered at the dinner table can be a simple, effective tool to help prevent [it],» says Elizabeth Planet, one of the report's researchers, and the centers vice president and director of special projects.

One study, conducted by a sociologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder and based on a national sample of teenagers, found that high - school students who have jobs are one - and - a-half times more likely than nonworkers to have committed criminal offenses and to have used alcohol, and are twice as likely as nonworkers to have used marijuana.

Students who underwent a prevention program taught by regular classroom teachers used less tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana years later than their peers who did not take part in the program, the researchers found.

The regulations include a regulatory impact analysis statement where the government admitted it was unable to set general limits for marijuana use while driving, noting, «THC is a more complex molecule than alcohol.»

Detecting marijuana in the system is much different than the procedures for alcohol testing.

With the recent growth in the medical marijuana industry and the number of patients that it serves, law enforcement has begun to devote more resources to prosecuting people for driving under the influence of substances other than alcohol.

Marijuana is often lauded as «safer» than alcohol and that conception is wrongly extended to when recreational and medical marijuana users get behind tMarijuana is often lauded as «safer» than alcohol and that conception is wrongly extended to when recreational and medical marijuana users get behind tmarijuana users get behind the wheel.

Studies done by the AAA have shown that teenagers believe they are more capable of driving under the effects of marijuana, and do it more often, than alcohol.

Specifically, compared with African Americans, non-Hispanic whites had significantly higher rates of any disorder, any disorder except conduct disorder, any disruptive behavior disorder, conduct disorder, any substance use disorder, and substance use disorder other than alcohol or marijuana.

Hispanics had higher rates than African Americans of panic disorder, obsessive - compulsive disorder, and substance use other than alcohol or marijuana disorders.

Females had significantly higher odds than males of having any disorder, any disorder except conduct disorder, any affective disorder, major depressive episode, any anxiety disorder, panic disorder, separation anxiety disorder, overanxious disorder, and substance use disorder other than alcohol or marijuana.

Compared with African Americans, Hispanic females had higher rates of all disruptive behavior disorders, conduct disorder, alcohol use disorder, substance use disorder other than alcohol or marijuana, and both alcohol and drug use disorder.

Significantly more females (56.5 %) than males (45.9 %) met criteria for 2 or more of the following disorders: major depressive, dysthymic, manic, psychotic, panic, separation anxiety, overanxious, generalized anxiety, obsessive - compulsive, ADHD, conduct, oppositional defiant, alcohol, marijuana, and other substance (t1812 = 3.13, P =.002); 17.3 % of females and 20.4 % of males had only 1 disorder.

Significantly more females (56.5 %) than males (45.9 %) met criteria for 2 or more of the following disorders: major depressive, dysthymic, manic, psychotic, panic, separation anxiety, overanxious, generalized anxiety, obsessive - compulsive, attention - deficit / hyperactivity, conduct, oppositional defiant, alcohol, marijuana, and other substance; 17.3 % of females and 20.4 % of males had only one disorder.

Consistent with the literature on youth depression (Marcotte, Fortin, Potvin, & Papillon, 2002), reports of stress and depressive symptoms were more common among girls than boys, and alcohol and marijuana use was more common among those who reported depressive symptoms, relative to those who did not report depressive symptoms.

Substance use escalates significantly through high school where 68 % of 12th graders have tried alcohol, 46 % marijuana, and 25 % any illicit drug other than marijuana [2], with overall rates of substance use peaking between the ages of 16 and 25 [3 • •].