Should coca leaves be legal? How many times a week is alcohol safe to drink? Is smoking weed still harmful to your health even if done in moderation?

WhiteBoyChill
Coca leaves aren’t legal in my country but I think they should be.

I’ve had friends who’ve visited South America and coca leaves are a big part of indigenous culture and they’re used to make tea and herbal remedies.

Obviously cocaine should still be illegal but the plant itself that cocaine is derived from isn’t actually harmful when left on its own.

Anyway, marijuana is legal in my state and I’m thinking of having it once I get older. What should I know about it?

I have friends with anxiety like me and they tell me it helps them relax and they insist that smoking it isn’t really harmful to your health.

Anyway, my Grandfather died in his 50’s from tobacco smoking so I am trying to be a bit cautious but if its really true that Marijuana is far less addictive, than I guess I can understand the argument.

The threat smoking poses to one’s health might just be dependent on the frequency in which they smoke.

But from an outsider’s perspective marijuana does appear to be a much more “clean” substance when compared to tobacco given the substance’s comparitive thickness to the other.

But I’m still not sure about alcohol either.

Currently alcohol is the only drug I been using and it helped me sleep on Friday nights in College because I’d drink socially with my friends and it would help cure the stress and thoughts about school from my mind that usually kept me awake at night.

But besides that I still would have liked to drink maybe a little more often.

I understand that drinking daily probably would be a bad idea but ideally I would’ve liked to have a can of beer every once in awhile when I felt too stressed about things during the week to deal with them.

So would that have been a fair solution or journey toward alcohol dependence?

It’s only on average about 1-2 days extra a week where I normally would have felt this way.
Should coca leaves be legal? How many times a week is alcohol safe to drink? Is smoking weed still harmful to your health even if done in moderation?
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