Smoking cannabis is a lot healthier. Prolonged heavy alcohol consumption wreaks havoc on your liver and kidneys, will fuck with your blood pressure, can lead to weight control problems, dehydrates you, can be a factor in aggravating diabetes, gout, pancreatitis, and others, adn is a central nervous system depressant. This means that the array of psychological and emotional problems you can aggravate by heavy drinking is pretty significant.
The chemical reason you get a high from alcohol is interrupting normal functioning of something in the brain, which I can't remember or explain off the top of my head, whereas humans actually have receptors for cannabinoids, and recent scientific studies have shown that even our own SKIN creates a chemical that is so similar to a cannabinoid that it functions by binding to the same receptors!
I can speak from personal experience as someone who used to drink heavily and has switched to pot as my inebriant of choice. Conveniently, it replaces the anti-anxiety meds I was on as well, and having no EtOH in my system has further stabilized my mood and I am a much nicer person (although that may be debateable this week... ugh) and feel like a million bucks. I have lost 25 lbs in the last year and a half, I'm less flabby and more energetic, I don't get crazy mood swings any more, I'm more productive at work, and I get sick less often.
Remember... alcohol is actually a poison to living things. Humans, the smartest of the animals, haven't managed to figure that one out yet, lol!
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . Is this the solution? So I gave up drinking alcohol 1 month ago. During the time that I drank alcohol, I also smoked bud, but not very often. Now that I have given up drinking, I mean I was drinking ALOT, about half a case every night, I have replaced it with smoking bud regularly. Is this a safer, healthier option? Or is this just robbing Peter to pay Paul? :stoned: Rating: 5