5 scientific reasons smoking weed is actually safer than drinking

If you believe anti-drug campaigners, one puff on a joint is likely to turn you into a slavering, insane wreck – and lead to you murdering your entire family for money for skunk.

Not so, according to the latest scientific research.

In fact there are a lot of ways in which smoking a joint is actually healthier than reaching for a beer – here’s five.

1) Scientists think weed is 114 times safer than alcohol

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Cannabis could actually be the safest drug available, after a study found it is actually 114 times less deadly than alcohol, according to the journal, Scientific Reports.

The reports‘ authors studied the effects of alcohol, heroin, cocaine, tobacco, ecstasy, crystal meth and cannabis.

2) Alcohol is MORE of a gateway drug than cannabis

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