I believe Government needs to remove its blinkers and come to terms with the difference between alcohol, tobacco and marijuana, especially with its current stance towards the latter.
I believe recently scientists asserted that recreational pot is less dangerous than both alcohol and tobacco.
Their findings showed the dangers of marijuana “may have been overestimated in the past”, while the risk of alcohol and tobacco has been “commonly underestimated”.
The report, published in Scientific Reports early this year compared the potential of death from the typical, recreational use of 10 drugs; marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine, diazepam, amphetamine and methadone.
Marijuana was, by far, found to be the safest, even when compared with alcohol and cigarettes.
So when we consider these findings I believe it would make more sense that our law enforcement would be better off keeping alcohol and tobacco in check rather than hunting down marijuana users, and that marijuana be regulated considering the very low risk it poses.
We live in a modern age in which everything can be measured for its potency but I believe it seems our leaders are too blind and too narrow-minded to realise that the two deadlier substances, alcohol and tobacco, are condoned over the far less marijuana.
I’m no alcohol drinker nor am I a tobacco smoker but I sure can see the mental, physical and poor health effects it has on our society.
I believe we sure have our goggles on the wrong way!
