Posts Tagged booze

Police Used Drug Forfeiture Funds For Weed, Hookers & Booze

Nice work, if you can get it! The former police chief of Romulus, Mich,, along with his wife and 5 officers, on Tuesday were charged with using drug forfeiture money to pay for prostitutes, marijuana and alcohol.www.tokeofthetown.com

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Attending the University of Hypocrisy: Pot’s bad, but party hard on booze ‎

This libertarian attitude seems laudable for acknowledging the fact that kids will party regardless of prohibitionist rules. However, it is counterproductive in the context of the school’s no-tolerance posture toward marijuana — a substance that has b…

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Why Is Booze Right, And Not Marijuana?

We live in a society where it’s okay to get as drunk as possible. It amuses some, and some just don’t care because alcohol is so acceptable to us. Not only that, but drunks tend to get a pass for their actions while inebriated.the420times.com

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Pot Versus Alcohol: Experts Say Booze Is the Bigger Danger

For more than three decades, America’s marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it’s time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.www.alternet.org

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Pot Versus Alcohol: Experts Say Booze Is the Bigger Danger.

For more than three decades, America’s marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it’s time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.www.alternet.org

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Unintended consequence of L.A.’s pot crackdown: "We deliver"

As has been proven time and again, legislating morality with governmental prohibition of mind-altering substances is fraught with unintended consequence. Banning booze created Al Capone. Banning drugs has put countless non-violent Americans behind bars…

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Majority Of Americans Say Pot Should Be Treated Like Booze

A significant majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana and regulating it either with the same rules that apply to alcohol or with fewer restrictions, according to a new poll. The survey was released on April 20 and made headlines because 55 percent of respondents said they oppose legalizing marijuana.

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Woodstock Would’ve Been a Disaster Drunk than Stoned

Police officers were everywhere and they just smiled, or even joked with the pot smokers. Nobody got busted and nobody got obnoxious, as always happens when booze is involved. The hippies took their hits on their joints and the cops let it go. One of the main lessons we should take from this event is that some illegal drugs, especially marijuana..

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Congress Leader: Full Pot Legalization Can Happen Now

To hear one committee chair tell it, broke states can take the lead right now and save “tens of millions” of tax dollars by legalizing marijuana like booze. To hear a celebrity drug dealer tell it — well that’s a different story altogether.

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Booze Causes Cancer

Alcohol, it turns out, stimulates a type of cell transformation that turns cancer cells more aggressive and thus more likely to spread throughout the body.
As we’ve noted before, research shows that cannabinoids (marijuana’s unique, active components) interfere with tumor growth and may actually prevent cancer.

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Lies About Marijuana Drive People to a Much More Harmful Dru

Anti-pot propaganda drives most people to drink alcohol instead. But booze is far more dangerous than marijuana.

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Pot May Protect Brain From Booze

Marijuana may protect the brain from some of the damage caused by binge drinking, according to a new study.

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Glenn Beck, high as a kite

Beck claims to have gotten high every single day from ages 16 through 31, using marijuana, cocaine, and booze.

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Get $10,000 If You Prove Booze Is Safer Than Cannabis

In a great marketing move, the Marijuana Policy Project’s Nevada campaign organizers have put up $10,000 to challenge anyone to prove alcohol is safer then marijuana. MPP put out three statements that you need to prove wrong through government statistics or peer reviewed research to get your hands on the cash.

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Police: Teacher Paid Students Weed, Booze, Zoloft For Chores

A teacher at a Fox Lake, IL, high school recruited two teenage girls to do chores around her home — then paid the 14-year-olds for their work with marijuana, alcohol and prescription Zoloft, Lake County authorities said today. Kym Krocza, 41, faces felony charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

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Between Alcohol, Marijuana, Booze Is Not Lesser of 2 Evils

People will abuse whatever drug they like – legal or not, safe or not. Some will drive while under the influence of alcohol, will make drugs a priority over necessities, and at times resort to drastic and dangerous measures to get that next high. People do stupid things, high or not.

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Pot May Protect Brain From Booze!

Brain scans find that teenagers who drink and smoke marijuana have less brain damage than those who only drink. Friday, August 28, 2009.

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Campus Hypocrisy: Marijuana Is Safer, But Students Are P…

Campus Hypocrisy: Marijuana Is Safer, But Students Are Pushed to More Dangerous Booze | DrugReporter | AlterNet

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Pot vs. Booze

There are countless arguments for the legalization and regulation of marijuana, and you’ve heard many of them in this space before. There’s the cost – in both human lives and dollars – of incarcera…

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NORML Deputy Director Declares Marijuana Is Safer Than Booze

The consumption of cannabis by adults is safer to the user and to society than is the consumption of alcohol, says NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano in a new book published this week. Entitled Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink, it argues that the criminal prohibition of marijuana irrationally punishes adults.

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