Marijuana Can Cure Alcohol Addiction

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To write about it, a little history is required.

I can hear all of you boozers saying, "Just because I enjoy Scotch, it's no sign that I am addicted." Well, let's face it Dude or Dudette, you're drunk. You have a lot of company. Booze kills about as many as deep fried hamburgers (heart attacks) and is only slightly less lethal than tobacco. Are you listening?

The latest data that I could find on my computer from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) in 2010 that alcohol killed about 40,000 people per year. While tobacco killed about 440,000. In this article, I am addressing alcohol, in a few days I will address tobacco more thoroughly.

According to Dr. Todd Mikarya the world's most outstanding expert and writer about marijuana, wrote about the first article comparing marijuana to alcohol.

His source was a British psychiatrist Dr. G Morris Carstairs who, in 1915, lived in a small village in Northern India. The inhabitants were Rajputs, who were warriors and governors, the others were Brahmins who were religious leaders, the warriors were alcohol drinkers.

The Brahmins drank bhang which is liquid marijuana. The Brahmins believed the use of bhang to be a flight to profound contact with reality. The reader knows what alcohol does.

While Dr. Mikarya was in medical school about 1950, he discovered marijuana in pharmacology textbooks. He had mostly heard about it in college, and started studying the subject. He became the director of non-classified marijuana research at the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Narcotics and drug abuse studies in 1967, based in Washington DC.

Meanwhile, he was looking up marijuana information at the national Library of Medicine. He ended up self-publishing Marijuana Medical Papers 1839-1972 in 1972, which is the best book ever on the subject. He moved to Berkeley in 1970 and became acquainted with leaders in the legalization for marijuana movement.

He eventually interviewed about 2,000 medical marijuana users and found a significant number of patients (94) who had found that marijuana was much better and safer than alcohol.

In the process, he wrote outstanding articles about the marijuana-alcohol interface including Cannabis as Treatment for Alcoholism (1970), Cannabis Substitution for Harm Reduction (2001), and Cannabis as a Substitute for Alcohol (2004). And actually, dozens more articles in the marijuana newspaper, O'Shaunessey's.

He is one of the most quoted authors on the subject of marijuana as medicine.

Other than Dr. Mikarya, Dr. Edward Brecker wrote in the consumer's Union Report on Illicit Drugs, Can Marijuana Replace Alcohol?

Dr. Mikarya, about 1970, wrote about the 94 alcoholics in the Berkley-SanFrancisco area who had self converted to marijuana.

It is a travesty to try to abbreviate or condense Dr. Mikarya's work, but I will try:

Of the 94 patients after conversion to marijuana, 41 patients found it very effective and 38 found it to be effective.

For any drug to be effective 79 times out of 94, is truly outstanding.

Many current articles lump alcohol with drugs, both licit and illicit. Marijuana is better and safer than all of them.

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Preach it brother
 
The latest addiction research indicates that relapse rates are higher for alcoholics who smoke pot. Same thing for tobacco. It's detailed in the film "Pleasure Unwoven."
 
In my opinion alcohol is good for a skin antiseptic and to make tintcures/oils of cannabis and thats about it,the potent drug alcohol has nearly destroyed every member of my family,i was a heavy drinker for many years,13-32, i gave it up because i realized it was eating all my $ and i never really felt good, i think its a tragedy that its legal and cannabis is not..yet, with so many lives taken & destroyed it still remains legal & socially acceptable, its liquid evil in my book, i used cannabis to help me quit alcohol and discovered it made me feel better & better as time went on,i have never had the slightest desire to drink again, i believe we are just on the tip of the iceberg of what cannabis based medicine can do,real curing to not just symptom treatment, legalize!!
 
Well I think most alcoholics that smoke weed do it purely for recreation and most people like that don't care to try all sorts of drugs and have probably found themselves addicted to more than just alcohol at some point. So those people would have probably relapsed anyway. I think what this is about is the people who really want a change in there life and they find a strain that makes them feel like they can be a part of society without the need for courage from booze. This is what helps relapse rates. And I think coupled with cannabis cultivation the therapy could out rite cure the problem. I know that my life long struggle with opioid addiction required methadone maintenance until I found cannabis cultivation. I was able to be medically detoxed and have had no desire for that kind of thing since. My garden gets my free time that and my family. Cannabis and cannabis cultivation have changed my life for the better. Ill go as far to say cannabis gave me a life period. It made me someone ill be proud for my kids to call dad. I love life for the first time. Thank you Kali mist !!!!!
 
The latest addiction research indicates that relapse rates are higher for alcoholics who smoke pot. Same thing for tobacco. It's detailed in the film "Pleasure Unwoven."

I just watched the trailer for "Pleasure Unwoven". (Ad for the Betty Ford Clinic)

It was made 3 years ago.

Hardly "Latest research"
 
It is easy to relapse to a legal substance when the preferred intoxicant is illegal, risky to grow or get and can cause some to lose their livelihood. Lets keep things in perspective. I am another testimonial to cannabis as medicine and a cure to DRINKING.

I liked drinking on the weekends, sometimes starting with a beer @11:30. There were times when drinking competed for my affections. Since cannabis became legal, I don't want to drink. I have lost 58 pounds and look and feel fantastic. My blood pressure was pre-hypertensive but is now 120/72. I work out regularly o. Cardio.

Anyone who wants to keep this nasty smelling green medical treasure illegal can kiss my ass.
 
Mine too!!!!!!!!!!
 
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