Alcohol kills 10,000 times more people than Marijuana. If government can legalize Alcohol, then why not Marijuana?
Surely it's even more than that.
According to the World Health Organisation:
- The harmful use of alcohol results in 2.5 million deaths each year.
- 320 000 young people between the age of 15 and 29 die from alcohol-related causes, resulting in 9% of all deaths in that age group.
- Alcohol is the world’s third largest risk factor for disease burden; it is the leading risk factor in the Western Pacific and the Americas and the second largest in Europe.
- Alcohol is associated with many serious social and developmental issues, including violence, child neglect and abuse, and absenteeism in the workplace.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs349/en/
