From the ranks of those who want to demonize cannabis, we hear arguments along these lines: „Cannabis use promotes stronger alcohol consumption when mixed. Therefore, it’s dangerous and must be strictly prohibited.“ This is backed up with a few statistics that were probably created specifically for this purpose. Those who have already smoked will drink more alcohol during this high? When people claim such things, they simply have no clue. Many heavy cannabis users with strong consumption patterns almost completely abstain from alcohol!
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Cannabis Users Tend Toward Heavy Alcohol Consumption – What Nonsense!
Of course, combining substances is generally more dangerous than enjoying just one substance, as there are interactions and two substances can cause either one to reach a lethal dose faster. This is why, for example, the popular combination of heroin, cocaine, and benzodiazepines is very dangerous and often fatal. With alcohol and cannabis, however, it’s something completely different. Only alcohol can be lethal here, and cannabis doesn’t lower the lethal dose. But: Anyone who drinks heavily and smokes will hardly be able to drink themselves to death if they have good weed!
How Do Alcohol and Cannabis Work in Combination?
People drink alcohol and many reach a level where they continue drinking uncontrollably until they completely crash. With cannabis, you can also completely crash, but you never reach a dangerous overdose, just as you practically never do dangerous things. You’re simply too wasted!
Anyone who drinks heavily and then smokes will probably drink little or no additional alcohol afterward. Anyone who smokes and then drinks heavily won’t manage large amounts of alcohol either. It always depends, of course, on how good the marijuana is and who we’re talking about. If the cannabis has only a weak effect in the combination, drinking can continue. However, if the cannabis is good, you become so stoned that you simply can’t manage to drink yourself into the hospital. Even small amounts of cannabis make this less likely to happen.
The problem occurs when people are inexperienced with this combination. Usually they drink to the point where loss of control sets in, someone passes a joint and you take a hit. This practically always ends with a knockout. Experienced combination users first drink their desired amount of alcohol and then consume a certain amount of cannabis to reach the desired point of the mix. This is then very controlled behavior. Anyone who drinks and then smokes can drink a bit more, but will take much more time.
Someone with alcohol problems and loss of control would probably benefit from cannabis, since they can no longer handle the alcohol quantities. Anyone who has a problem with their cannabis consumption certainly won’t make it better with alcohol, but only worse. After all, we know those who quit smoking by drinking and did themselves no favors!
The idea that cannabis users tend toward heavy alcoholism is completely illogical. Among people who combine alcohol and cannabis, however, these tend to be individuals who have strong consumption patterns and want to get really wasted. You achieve that with this combination. People with strong consumption patterns end up with this combination for that reason, but these strong consumption patterns aren’t created by it – they were already dormant and are merely awakened! Anyone inexperienced will naturally turn pale and pass out. That’s no fun!
However, anyone who has strong consumption patterns with alcohol alone can also achieve this and takes even more damage, as does their environment.
Solving Alcohol Problems with Mixed Consumption
When alcohol and cannabis work together, you can no longer handle the same amounts of alcohol. That would be good for the organs and many problem consumers. Then it would make sense if these problem drinkers consumed some cannabis directly with the alcohol, so it hits harder and therefore naturally less is consumed. Anyone not doing funnel drinking with hash liquor won’t drink themselves to death! Many alcoholics probably hate cannabis for this reason. Anyone who smokes simply can’t drink properly anymore!
Anyone who quickly becomes aggressive from alcohol and approaches women unwantedly could perhaps also prevent this problem with cannabis mixed consumption. There are many people who completely get off alcohol or opiates with cannabis and perhaps live longer because of it. If the cannabis high internally led to consuming other drugs, this certainly wouldn’t be the case. It’s precisely the alcohol high that disinhibits, and in this loss of control other drugs are taken, which can end very tragically.
Mixed consumption can reduce risks when a more dangerous drug is partially replaced by a less dangerous one and this doesn’t lower the threshold to a lethal overdose of the dangerous drug. In pain medicine, the dose of opiates can practically always be reduced through cannabis use and often discontinued entirely. This is more pleasant, safer, and therefore better for patients!
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