Testing The Claim That Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol Or Tobacco
"Marijuana is safer than than alcohol or tobacco."
I came across that claim again last week while scrolling through Twitter. This time, the tweet was from Dr. Peter Grinspoon, who practices primary care at Mass General.
Grinspoon supports ballot Question 4 in Massachusetts, which would make marijuana legal for recreational use. He has a lot of personal experience with drugs; he's in recovery from an addiction to Vicodin and a few other opioid painkillers. But when asked about his tweet, Grinspoon talks about his patients. He says as many as half of his patients use marijuana, many to relieve pain or in other ways Grinspoon says are a health benefit.
In contrast, Grinspoon says: "You just see life after life swallowed up by alcohol. You just see alcohol tearing families apart. And you don’t have walk very far to see lives destroyed by tobacco. I’ve never in 20 years as...
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