- Cancer
- Weight gain (alcohol is more calorie dense than sugar)
- Birth defects
- Drunk driving: 10K deaths a year
- Violence / sexual violence
- Overdosing
- Withdrawal can cause death
- Did you know date rape drugs wouldn't work without alcohol? (2) It's only the combination with alcohol that causes the victim to pass out.
If you actually look at how alcohol has an impact on the body, it's effectively a poison. It has no medical benefits and only consequences. The whole red wine thing has nothing to do with alcohol but some of the enzymes in red wine specifically. Just drink grape juice instead.
I really don't care if you give yourself cancer. That's a personal decision but consumption of alcohol leads to so much crime and impact on others. Weed not so much. As a society, we've made a decision to tolerate it but it's still there.
besides given how long we have been consuming alcohol throughout our history, i think its effects are largely understood. we do not know this about cannabis
Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history (1). It was smoked for pleasure and religiously long before Christianity became a religion.
I wonder, do you dilute your glass of red wine before drinking it? The ancient Greeks diluted their wine with 25% wine and 75% water. They also viewed anyone who didn't as a barbarian and drunkard (2).
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis#:~:text=Ca....
2) https://www.worldhistory.org/article/944/wine-in-the-ancient...
Not "vape", with juice.
Heat, and inhale.