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Old 07-02-2019, 03:03 PM  
Paul Markham
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Is cannabis or alcohol worse for you?

Strange conclusion the officials come to when the wrong one is asked.

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So which is worse?

Just looking at the numbers, there were 9,214 alcohol-related deaths in 2016 while 24 deaths were linked to cannabis in the same year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Then a doctor says.

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"Roughly 80% of adults in England report drinking alcohol in the past year, compared with only about 7% who report using cannabis,"
Using maths if they are both equally damaging, cannabis should be killing 830. But no one points that out. The real % of deaths from cannabis isn't even 0.5%. Cannabis is still illegal in the UK, while grocers can sell alcohol and tobacco.
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