[clarge1120]

The coolest part of this whole discussion is that we can finally compare weed and alcohol.

Before the current weed era, weed was always compared favorably, by smokers, to alcohol with the adage: Weed is illegal, yet I've never seen a bar fight after everyone gets high.

Now we can do a real comparison of the effects of weed smoking on the general public, the same way we've done with drinking.

[HankB99]

> Weed is illegal, yet I've never seen a bar fight after everyone gets high.

Dude! Who ate all of the pizza?

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;)

[Invictus0]

Not sure this experiment would pass the IRB

[jjgreen]

True story: I was talking to an academic who was doing a study, aiming to get people to fill out a big questionnaire on health and lifestyle. As an incentive, people got a voucher for a gym. "Don't you think you'd get different results if you offered 200 cigarettes or a bottle of vodka instead?" I asked, "Well that wouldn't get past the ethics board!"

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

Still, there's a point in the parent comment. One can more easily make observations about the behavior of their peers before/during/after use.