High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
- Nov 19, 2010
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How would legalizing marijuana reduce deaths from alcohol and tobacco? It isn't either or, most of the time it's both, simultaneously.
People are assuming that if marijuana is legal people will switch their vice from drinking and tobacco to weed, I smoke and drink and if weed was legal that wouldn't change, I might enjoy a nice blunt every now and again but I wouldn't switch over to the buddha completely.
That's pretty much the way it would go. At worst, people would drink and smoke dope simultaneously being both drunk and high.
The day Whitney Houston died, she was at the poolside restaurant knocking back straights and chain smoking cigarettes. She had a pharmacy of drugs in her system including pot. Obviously she could smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol AND take an assortment of drugs.
You are pretty much spot on, people wouldn't stop smoking ciggarretts or drinking alcohol, the only difference is they will be able to go down to the store and legally purchase marijuana to smoke along with their Newports and their beer.