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Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way advocating banning weed. All drugs should be legal anyways. What someone wants to do with their body is none of my business, as long as it doesn't harm me or others.
I should have clarified that alternative use of marijuana is a better substitute than smoking weed or drinking alcohol. I just don't like that a lot of people assume smoking it daily is somehow healthy for you.... it's like smoking tobacco, it's bad period. It's a vice so by all means do it how you want but there seems to be this underlying myth that people think it's not harmful at all.
Literally no one thinks inhaling smoke is healthy. This isn't a thing people believe. It's just such a red herring when introduced in a conversation about the ravages of hard drugs like alcohol.
It's like pointing out that both carrots and snickers contain sugar.
You apparently haven't been following along with the conversation....a LOT of people think it's completely fine. The trees subreddit was filled with people like this. They're logic was that they're not smoking tobacco and it's fine because no one has linked smoking marijuana with lung cancer.
The difference is that, there are ways of consuming cannabis that don't involve smoking. Edibles are a thing, and so are vaporizers (tiny convenction ovens that vaporize the cannabinioids but don't produce any nasty combustion products).
With alcohol, there is no "safer" way of consuming it. The psychoactive compound itself is physically far more damaging than THC is.