Weed is not more dangerous than alcohol

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Published 2014-07-10

Drugs are bad, but the drug war is worse. It's possible that legalizing marijuana could be a huge public-health win.

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All Comments (21)

@snk_ow4354 4 years ago

People don't get high and run a stop sign, they stop and wait for it to turn green.
@nattymclaws2181 4 years ago

A group of drunk people will start a fight but a group of high people will start a band.
@bottledwaffle9429 3 years ago

you put 1,000 angry people in a room with weed, they will be laughing and having fun, you put 4 angry people in a room with alcohol, someone's gonna be dead.- Snoopdogg
@gordonmacgregor7668 3 years ago

alcohol: throwing up, stomach pump, fights, car crashes weed: chill out on a couch or something idk I'm hungry
@PivotCrocodile 6 years ago

You look like the guy who tried to legalize marijuana from GTA V
@mackan919 7 years ago

Only thing thats gonna get murdered when I get high, is the fridge.
@ravenneck1035 1 year ago

This video has aged so insanely well.
@Akkuto 3 years ago

"Thats not a drug, it's a leaf." Arnold schwarzenegger
@seaneas7054 7 years ago

I would say that cigarettes are worse than weed
@alextellem3449 6 years ago

The only good thing alcohol does is clean Bongs.
@DEichenberg 3 years ago

I have never met anyone who was in rehab for pot, and I have been there 6 times. It's all alcohol and fentanyl now.
@fencho4381 3 years ago

This was posted 6 years ago and we have barely seen any change. The government is blind.
@laughsngasps 4 years ago

Marijuana & heroin in the same category still blows my mind Alcohol is not on the list because it creates profit smh
@shed4144 5 years ago

Some say weed is a gateway drug yo other drugs but the only gateway it's leading to is the fridge 😆
@meze2095 3 years ago

Id argue that sugar is a more dangerous drug than weed.
@zigster1325 5 months ago

weed, acid, shrooms, all misclassified as schedule 1 when they dont belong there 😕 smh
@vampiremoney8627 5 years ago

Marijuana makes me wanna hug people I don’t know Alcohol makes me wanna fight people I don’t know 🤷🏾‍♂️
@alexg-cl6ef 8 years ago

Please don't listen to him. My father snorted a marijuana and was killed to death.
@Ak-rw7sp 3 years ago

2020: Weed - Schedule 1 drug 2050: Laugh at 2020
@ms-ht1cj 2 years ago

I was always annoyed by considering alcohol as just kind of drink, but not drug.