Booze or weed: What’s worse for your health?
Live MintA renewed focus on alcohol’s health effects has rekindled a common debate: Is alcohol or marijuana worse for you? “The reality is, if you’re really worried about your health, you wouldn’t use either of them," says Ryan Vandrey, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who helps run the Cannabis Science Lab. “People are pretty mindful of the fact that if they drink copious amounts of alcohol over longer periods of time, they will have health effects," says Staci Gruber, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. “We hypothesize and we assume that the smoking of cannabis is most likely to have the highest risk of head and neck cancer," says Dr. Niels Kokot, a head and neck surgeon at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California and senior author on the study. “I think the next couple of decades are going to tell us a lot about cannabis and cancer risk," says Vandrey.
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