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Hi students,
I came across this chart during my nightly readings (which involve me getting stoned and browsing the internet for whatever comes to mind), and I’d like to share it with you.
Below is a chart that was compiled from a poll among various medical psychiatrists specializing in addiction treatment. It shows a comparison of the perceived harm and dependence of various drugs.
As you would expect, cannabis is rated lower for both harm and dependence than alcohol or tobacco, both of which are legal. Benzodiazepines, which are often prescribed by doctors for treatment of ailments such as depression, anxiety and alcohol withdrawal, are rated significantly more harmful than cannabis, which can be used to treat the above three ailments. What are your thoughts?
Happy blazing!
Professor Blaze
About the author Hi students. Professor Blaze here! I've been studying both the scientific and social aspects of marijuana for the last 30 years, and I consider myself an expert on the topic. Read more from this author
The use of benzodiazepines doesn’t surprise me. The pharmaceutical companies can make more money from these legal, harmful drugs than they can from weed!
Everything has it’s use. To make something with so many positive uses and little or no harm, illegal, points to another motive for it to be illegal.
Since cannabis has a lower dependence and harm than tobacco and alcohol, multinational corporations & pharmaceutical companies decided that it won’t do them any good. Why should they mass produce a plant that will actually benefit the population? Instead, they mass produced and falsely advertised their products to get the public sick, addicted, and dependent to their drugs. It doesn’t make any sense to have a drug like cannabis which has lower dependence, harm, and many medical benefits to be illegal. We have drugs such as caffeine, sugar, alcohol, pain killers etc… that are readily available on our grocery shelves, which in fact show more harm than cannabis (of course if taken in massive amounts)… :\