The Hypocrisy of Alcohol vs. Marijuana

Maybe I'm crazy, but I'll be honest. I enjoy getting high waaaaaayyyy more than I like getting drunk. Cheif reasons include the lack of a hangover, the fact that I feel like everything sounds better, looks better, and tastes better when high...and I just like it a lot more.

That being said, I know sooooo many people who are fine with getting trashed all the time, but when it comes to Marijuana, they act like it's the worst thing in the world. It really pisses me off when my friends who get drunk and skip class actually look down on people who smoke pot. They say "i'd never smoke weed!" and my one friend is fine with us all engaging in underage drinking at his place, but this one time I wanted to bring over some green and he's like "No, I just don't want that stuff at my place." While I do respect his decision, it just sorta pissed me off.

Why are people okay with underage drinking, which is illegal, yet weed makes them get all high and mighty? In fact, in my state (Ohio) we have lighter marijuana laws than some other states. Also, alcohol is worse for you physically (when you think of the damage to the liver because your body can't process it). I love weed, and I'm fine with people who drink...but I just don't understand how you can be all for the one, but hate the other and think it's the worst thing in the world.

My girlfriend was giving me shit about smoking weed (that's a whole different story...) and I asked her, "If I got totally wasted just the same amount of times as I smoked...how would you feel?" (meaning instead of smoking, I got trashed. She said...and I quote "I would feel differently about that."

So I guess my question is, why the double standard? Don't you think it's ridiculous?

 

Good point. But i dont know anyone who underage drinks and doesnt smoke marijuana or doesnt dislike it.

 

You should have met all my friends in high school. I agree though I don't like gettingdrunk-or drinking at all really. I would just get sick and have to use my 'homegrown medicine' anyways.

 

Yep i know people like that. Get wasted and they're like weed is soo bad. But weed actually is good for you. Alcohol kills. Stupid politics and laws

 

I totally understand haha, some of the people i know don't even consider alcohol a drug, yet cannabis will suck out their soul and send them to hell if they ever touch it

 

yeah, people are fucking tools

 

most people i know are the complete opposite, espiecally my family. my parents think weed is alright and they give me the freedom to smoke it. alcohol on the other hand, has killed one member of my family and has severly screwed up some other people we know. they don't ever want me to become an alcoholic, yet they'd be fine with me being chronic.

 

Yeah, it really pisses me off that weed is so demonized...like people think that if you smoke weed that you're like a bad person. And, everyone says it's a "gateway drug" and they act like you're going to be shooting up heroin and shit just coz you take hits from a blunt.

 

agreed

 

Once I was in my friends garage rolling a J with my buddies. And a bunch of my friend's brother's 15 year old friends came through the garage with bottles of vodka and beer and some random girl just said "It's sad that you guy's need to smoke that to have a good time." I just cracked up!

 

ok, imagine you took a shot for every two hits of pot you took.

 

the alcohol would get me less fucked up prolly
but with how much I've smoked, I bet it would fuck up my liver real good :tongue:

 

you think so? Then you are the stoner with the least tolerance I ever met (online)
I know every stoner claims to have the mad hookups when they post on the net.

 

I am an economal stoner
I usually smoke gravity bong and I usually find great weed for cheap (Pittsburgh weed is pretty awesome in general though)

 

gravity bongs are a waste, but they make you cough and feel like a man.......

 

i like getting high and drunk at the same time

 

I used to like getting buzzed on alcohol first, then smoking.

 

are you kidding?!
you just suck =P

I usually don't cough (someitmes I do, but usually I can hodl it), and two hits will typically get my off my ass

one time my firned took three hits right in a row, and had some sorta anxiety attack

 

Yeah 2 hits is enogth to get me pretty baked xD