“More than one-third of participants felt that daily smoking of cannabis was safer than tobacco, and their views increasingly favored safety of cannabis vs tobacco over time (1742 participants [36.7%] in 2017 vs 2107 participants [44.3%] in 2021; P < .001)”
Not that I have anything against Marijuana, but I’d prefer a study or something like “79% of researchers in the field believe…” , because if we go with what majority thinks on scientific topics , we are going to have a bad time.
That’s fair. Agreed, I’d love to see that stat. For me, tracking public perception over time is helpful and insightful in its own way. For example: Anticipating voting trends and legislation.
It’s also worth noting there are several barriers for effective cannabis research to happen, even with all the changes in legalization, production, and access. Here’s an article from 2021 about research challenges, but progress has been made recently
Yep, you poll citizens when you want to know if something is politically popular.
Public perception is a valid topic of study in its own right.
“Facts are meaningless. You can prove anything that is even remotely true with facts.”
–Homer J. Simpson
Most “science” is funded people who are paying for specific results.
Twenty years ago it wouldn’t be a big deal, but nowadays it’s HARD to get 79% of Americans to believe ANY fact.
Everybody loves weed, across the political spectrum.
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Probably because it is… Cannabis smoke isn’t that healthy overall, but it’s found to be safer than Tobacco smoke is at least. It doesn’t carry nearly the carcinogenic risks of tobacco, and afaik, it doesn’t carry the same risks for COPD, chronic bronchitis, etc. Though longer term studies would be needed for those to get real data to know for sure.
Not only that, but I doubt most weed smokers don’t smoke 2 packs of weed a day.
Lol, well that might be a challenge to some, but yes you are generally correct! xD
So one else please admit that they saw aflac
Poll: 21% of Americans are dumber than previously thought
Now do the same for alcohol.
Forget the poll.
What we need is to put a dozen angry people in a room.
Half with weed and half with alcohol and a bunch of irritation and see which half will start a fish fight first.
I mean I’m not actually trying to solve the debate I just think it’ll be a funny experiment.
Watching people slap each other with fish is always funny.
Ah crap typo. I meant fist*
I knew what you meant but I couldn’t help myself.
The people with weed will just sit around and laugh at the situation.
Anything that is being burnt is not good to smoke.
Spotted the vaporent XD
Vape is also bad for you. Lungs are designed to take oxygen.
Yeah ofc, but it’s still way better than combustion
Depends on how they are smoked. Joints are fucking terrible for you.
The benefit is that it isn’t chemically addictive. It is behaviorally addictive though. Both are very bad when inhaled (of course).
We should say how it’s consumed, because the arguably safest way to consume marijuana doesn’t involve smoking at all (edibles).
(Nods as he puffs from his Dynavap).
I’m never going back from the dry herb vapes! When you’re smoking cannabis, you’re turning perfectly good THC into carcinogens. Why would you do that‽ Better to vaporize your cannabinoids without setting them on fire.
Especially when you don’t smoke it.
Yeah anywhere it’s legal the amount of people vaporizing and consuming edibles far outweigh the people still smoking flower.
Safer when smoked in the same quantities? Not even close. Marijuana smoke has considerably more tar*. Safer when smoked like a sane person? Definitely.
*Cigarettes carry their own risks because of added chemicals, but the headline didn’t specify cigarettes, just tobacco.
Fair point on the Tobacco vs Cigarettes, but generally people interpret the two as synonymous.
They do, which highlights how flawed/pointless this survey and headline are.
Not accounting for the well known association between tobacco and cigarettes when formulating the question is just lazy polling.
Not quite sure how they got the 79%. Looking at the 2021 data for two questions:
- How safe is smoking one marijuana joint a day versus one cigarette a day?
- As safe or safer than tobacco totals to 75.5%
- How does secondhand smoke from marijuana compare to secondhand smoke from tobacco?
- As safe or safer than tobacco totals to 77.5%
I wouldn’t wanna inhale second-hand cannabis either.
Same. Still would rather shotgun cannabis smoke over tobacco
Second-hand is really the only thing that concerns me. What people smoke is none of my business.
Down with smoking! Support edibles.
- How safe is smoking one marijuana joint a day versus one cigarette a day?
That’s some low bar there lol.
Gotta start somewhere. Just remember where we came from!
I guess it must be true
Yeah, it doesn’t mean much but it should mean something for legalization. Supposedly the beliefs of the people are what matters (we all know this isn’t true), so if people think it’s safer than tobacco then either tobacco should be illegal or weed should be legal.
It’s definitely safer to society than alcohol. As long as that’s legal, many other drugs should be as well.
I hope so lol but I know it’s not
Falling from 2 storeys down is safer than falling from 3 storeys down.
79% of Americans all got the same question right, that alone is kinda shocking.
My local news station aired this story today along with a quote from experts that it is not true because smoking things leads to inhaling bad shit from the wrappers.
