Note: I’m Lenny aka houroc and from the sensational stoner blog Hail Mary Jane. Me and my buddy Chris thought it would be a good idea to debate whether weed or beer are better for your consuming pleasure. Here is my argument for Weed over beer. You can check his argument for beer out here.
Weed or alcohol. That is the question that lots of young people are faced with every weekend when they decide to go out with friends or spend an evening inside. A lot of the time, people will just choose both but that is not always the best move if you don’t know your limits. You might not be able to drink as much as you normally can if you have been hitting the blunt the whole night. The next thing you know, you are slumped over the toilet seat seeing that food you ate to sober yourself up, coming up. That’s never a fun position to be in.
So lets say you are one of those people who cannot handle both and you and friends are planning an evening of debauchery. You have a tough decision to make. A good night can be had choosing either route but in my opinion, a better time can be had with our friend mary jane. Here are some practical reasons why you should skip the drinks next time and just go with the trees.
No Vomiting
I’ve heard of people getting high and throwing up but throwing up off of too many drinks happens way more frequently. I am sure you have spent at least an evening or two with your porcelain friend after drinking. The first time I threw up from drinking, I went from drinking beer to drinking 151 and back to beer again. Big mistake. I woke up the next morning and proceeded to throw up multiple times over the course of the next few hours. No fun. Weed won’t do that to you.
Driving
I don’t know about you but I will take my chances riding in the car with a stoner way sooner than I would with the guy that had 4 patron shots and 5 beers. Not only is smoking weed less dangerous but studies (like one below) actually show that smoking weed makes people drive slightly safer than they do when they are sober. Now I am not encouraging anyone to drive under the influence of anything but according to alcohol alert at the time this piece was written 1,227 people had already died in 2010 from drunk driving accidents. Just saying.
People bond during the cypher
Anyone who smokes will tell you that weed makes you feel peaceful and feel closer to those you choose to blaze with regularly. I’ve ended arguments with people over blunts. I’ve had some of the best times in my life with people while smoking with them, even if I don’t remember all the little details.
You can cook weed and still get the effect
You can cook weed into so many things and you will still have the effect of that smoking it will have and people around you will not know anything. If you cook alcohol in things, you only get the flavor. What a jip.
Because this would never happen on weed
or this….
Enough said.
Weed doesn’t change your perception of people’s looks
I’ve never woken up next to someone that I shouldn’t have after a long night of smoking. Alcohol is another story though. Beer goggles have been getting ugly chicks laid for years. Don’t be another victim.
No beer belly
I’ve never heard of a bong belly. Now everyone knows that you get the munchies after smoking but you have to smoke and then eat to gain the weight. After drinking, you are still usually going to be hungry for some greasy food but you will also have the additional calories that came with that six pack of beer you just bought. Beer bellys are not attractive fellas.
I’ve never heard of Medicinal Jack Daniels
Weed has many medicinal uses. I could go on and on but I will take one example for this slot. If you have a hangover, smoking a bowl will ease your pain, taking a shot won’t.
People get wild after drinking
I have never seen a fight start because someone smoked too much. Smokers are generally laid back, relaxed, fun loving people. People who are sitting around drinking regularly get into fight though because when you drink, you have the tendency to think that you are superman. It doesn’t work like that.
Weed doesn’t kill you
No one has ever died from weed in history, someone probably died from alcohol in the time it took me to write this post. There are any number of ways that you can perish after a long night of drinking. If anything, people are extra cautious after smoking so they are less likely to have something happen.
Thanks again to Chris for letting me holla at you guys. Keep toking.
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Wow lotta bullshit in here. Don't much care tot ell you all about it though.
“No one has ever died from weed in history.”
Two of my best friends died in high school. They were smoking pot, and decided to go out for a joy ride where they decided they could make a hair pin turn going 90 mph. They wrapped themselves around a tree in their pretty little red car, and both died instantly.
I know it's pointless to make a comment about something like this that is on the internet, but I have to.
If you're going to post a list of reasons why X is better than Y, at least use reasons that you can back up with lots of facts, research, and time spent studying the 2 subjects – don't just write up reasons why you personally think X is better than Y.
they died from DRIVING while high, not from being high, and his personal reasons are actually very true to the fact
if ur not gonna back ur shit up dont put it up there everything he has said here is all backed up by facts
“If you have a hangover, smoking a bowl will ease your pain, taking a shot won’t.”
yes it most certainly will. It's called “hair of the dog,” junior. Ask somebody.
And it also makes you a stupid hippy! Huge bonus, dirty potheads
Oh yeah and dont forget: It makes you turn into a complete moron, kills off your brain (Hey at least you can get a new liver) and makes you stink (FYI the way you smell like shit after you clambake isnt attractive) but if you like pot GO AHEAD keep right on smoking it until you clean up the gene pool a little.
your fucking stupid your friends deserved it!!! pip your a fucking idiot!!! so shut the fuck up and go drink some beer dumbshit
The effects are all only short term. Stoners that act like morons typically were morons to begin with, and the effects would go away over time after quitting according to studies. Weed also smells a lot nicer than booze. So um… yeah there we go.
you really can't argue, unless you feel kinda silly for thinking weed turns you into a moron and said that as a nervous joke then lolll. but probably you're just still arguing pointlessly. gotta know when to admit you're wrong dude, respect
it's YOU'RE for fuck sake! fail!!! if you say your a dickhead, the other person could make you look like a twat and say, “Oh yeah, MY A DICKHEAD!”
realy u effing reject your actualy going to defend alcohol heer i mean like realy im an alcoholic aswell as a major pot head n dude we both know ur dad wasent stoned when he beat the shit out of ur mom. have respect for those that toke n those that dont. buddy smoke a fucking joint and calm down know one said that people should stop drinking so our hopps flavored addiction we share isnt going anywere. oh take ur combat (^^from above^^) “”(FYI the way you smell like shit after you clambake isnt attractive) unless ur atracted to dudes why do u care unless ur saying u dont like pot head girls. stoner girls rock dude ,i get it now ur resentful to women who smoke weed because u dont havethe balls to hoot the herb. keep on drinking n hating on hippysas the last pic will show u it is the drunks that are cleaning the proverbial gene poolFY people dont die from smoking weed lol
Booze doesnt make you smell like you just went for an adventure into a skunks asshole, pot does. I bring up the smell not because im attracted to men but because EVERYONE in a 15ft radius can smell that you stink like shit so go take a shower after you take your hits you greaseball. Next town over a guy got shot and killed by the DEA, he had 20 garbage bags full of pot he was going to sell, I watched and applauded them, one more down.
Also: The way you talk proves your a stupid douchebag pot smoking retarded hippy. “Lurn sum englis!” instead of toking up.
Enjoy working for minimum wage at McDonalds for the next 20 years!
Btw. IT doesn't kill brain cells. You should do some googling before you post such a “SERIOUS” nonsensical opinion. Also. “At least you can get a new liver”? Really? Really now? You're serious? One: You may not get your “new liver” In time. Two only a person who is a serious drinking fan (otherwise known as a drunk ass piece of shit) would dare say something as stupid as that. You can't get a new liver. You would receive someone else's liver. Some one who had died previously to your somewhat suicide by drinking your liver to death.
I hope that the liver you'd receive was from someone who was hit by a drunk driver. I think that would be some serious ironic mojo there.
Also. Yes, you smell like weed after you smoke it. Congratulations. If you care or if others you know care about it, take a shower. Real simple. If you were to drink, you become a sloppy mess and you smell like alcohol as well. Taking a shower wouldn't do a thing except maybe make you pass out an potentially drown.
I wish i could give you a high five!
Actually during prohibition, alcohol was sold as medicine…
ACTUALLY some of the greatest scientest in the world smoked the reefer so your wrong bout mcdonalds
1) weed is dirty
2) smoking weed leads to other drugs
3) its illegal
4) makes you stupid
5) makes your hair fall out
6) smells like shit
7) clogs your brain pathways
8) increases heart rate
9) can lead to lung cancer
ash is comperatively better than these two
1-Dirty? how so?
2- weed does not lead to other drugs any more than alcohol does. You will do what you are inclined to do.
3- Yes, you could go to jail or pay a fine for weed. But alcohol was illegal once. Weed was legal once. Being legal or illegal doesn't make something inherently wrong, just what current society believes. It probably will be legal again some day.
4- Sure, but only while you're under the influence. Alcohol does a similar thing.
5- ? Maybe you're thinking of the cancer patients who smoke weed to deal with the pain? They lose hair due to chemotherapy, not weed.
6- The smell is subjective (opinion). Alcohol makes you smell bad too IMO.
7- I'm not sure what you mean by that. Alcohol is proven to alter your brain.
8- OK, so what? Hot chicks increase my heart rate. Should I stay away from them too?
9- Probably. Alcohol leads to plenty of health problems too, including serious physiological addiction, unlike marijuana. Pot is only psychologically addictive (like a bad habit).
1) That's not even an argument
2) If by other drugs you mean junk food then yes. I'd be way more apt to try crack if I was loaded drunk than baked.
3) Yes it's illegal. Did you ever question that maybe there's something wrong with that?
4) Has been scientifically proved that weed does NOT kill brain cells. In fact it's possible they actually stimulate the production of brain cells.
5) I don't even know where you heard that BS…
6) That's an opinion not a fact
7) A) that sentence doesn't even make sense. B) see number 4
8) True. It does increase your heart rate while smoking it. Know what else does? Jogging.
9) Also just plain false. Number of people who have been diagnosed with any cancer related to marijuana alone; 0
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Actually, all that does is restart your “drunk” and once that shot wears off, you start to feel doubly hungover. “Hair of the dog” is a bunch of bologna. Smoking some reefer on the other hand actually WORKS, so by the time the high wears off, you aren’t hungover anymore. :)
If you want to watch something interesting, go watch how weed won the west from alex jones. In the movie he talks about the founding fathers smoking it.. And it’s written from their own hands that they smoked it. So stop reading all the propaganda stuff. Do you know why weed is illegal? It is one of the only plants that gets rid of pain/anxiety/stress/sleep deprivation/etc. What all these proofs of scientific fact, do you really think the big pharmaceutical companies will not pull strings and say hey we need people on opium based painkillers/anti depressants and not on weed? Come on man what you are saying from 1 to 9 is pure propaganda that everyone says… Make your research.
Yeah it definately makes you a complete moron, my wife and I both attend and Ivy League school and have 3.9+ GPAs in computer science (and we’re both in our final year so it’s not like I’ve just been taking underwater basket weaving courses). Wife recently competed in the Google Summer of Coding, and I’m sure Google does a decent job of screening out morons.