Pot vs. alcohol
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   We begin our dissection with Bensinger's assertion that marijuana
   contains up to 50 ingredients and that THC accumulates in the blood
   stream in levels recorded 30 days following moderate use, while
   alcohol is an uncomplicated one-ingredient substance that dissolves
   quickly into the blood leaving nary a trace.
 
   The manifest ignorance about both grass and booze evinced here by the
   country's top drug czar is appalling. Bensinger has to be a teetotaler.
   No lush would never go around saying Glenfiddich single-grain malt 
   Scotch is the same thing as Wild Turkey blended whiskey. Skid row bums
   know more about booze than that. Pure ethyl is a patent poisen: any
   drinkable liquor, even Polish vodka, is "contaminated" with all manner
   of undistilled mash residues, esters and whatnot that give it flavor,
   body, odor and color. Wine has all manner of lees and dregs in it, and
   even lowly beer-not to freak anybody out-has been known to contain 
   traces of n-nitrosamines, organic chemicals shown to be carcinogenic. 
   That's one more known carcinogen than they've found in grass so far, for
   all its organic complexity.
 
   Yeah it happens that grass has 300 odd different chemicals in it, besides
   the 59 cannabinoids, not just the 50 that Bensinger finds. And sure it's
   true that some metabolites of THC collect in the body's fatty tissues
   (not its blood or lung tissure like the drug czar believes) but it's
   hard to see what harm the could possibly do there. None of the 59
   cannabinoids has been shown to injure body tissues in any way-  though
   god knowns the law-enforcement and medical establishments have tried
   hard enough to provve exactly that.
 
   Booze is excreted from the body rather more rapidly than THC, sure, but
   nothing like the way bensinger rose-colors it here. Every time a person
   imbides booze to a peak level - gets drunk, that is - a residue of pure 
   alcohol is left in the body's fatty tissue and stays there for days. 
   Alcohol is a known nerve toxin, snapping dendrites in the brain, and it 
   does horrible things to the lining of your whole gastrointestinal tract.
   It's a perfectly good way to get stoned, mind you, but to say it's as
   harmless as grass is an insult even to the intelligence of FBI trainees
   and mexico city cattle prodders. But how many alcoholics at Quantico and
   among the world's police chiefs have been confirmed in their "drug seeking
   behavior" by Bensinger's misrepresentations of alcohol's toxity?
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       Pov Vs. Tobacco, vs. Babies, and the sum of it all coming soon'
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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