Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol And Cigarettes – And Is Less Addictive Than Technology – Americans Say In New Survey
Americans consider marijuana to be significantly less dangerous than cigarettes, alcohol, and opioids—and they say cannabis is less addictive than each of those substances, as well as technology—according to a new poll from the American Psychiatric Association.
The survey showed that people see marijuana (37 percent) as dangerous, compared to cigarettes (84 percent), alcohol (64 percent), prescription opioids (66 percent), non-prescription opioids (75 percent), and vapes (76 percent). The only thing people said was safer than marijuana was technology, which only 23 percent described as very or somewhat unsafe.
In a separate question, 64 percent said that cannabis could be addictive. That’s a lower number than each of the other categories, including cigarettes (87 percent), alcohol (84 percent), prescribed opioids (83 percent), non-prescribed opioids (74 percent), vapes (81 percent), and technology (75 percent).
This is a continued trend in our society, with more people seeing cannabis in a positive light compared to other everyday things like alcohol and technology. The normalization of cannabis will hopefully one day result in the federal legalization of cannabis and government support of research and studies to show the positives of cannabis.
