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MTV’s The REAL World and Alcohol

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If people want to get “Real” about pot and all other drugs that cause trauma and death to people of all ages, especially teens(The MTV World) they should know that a 5 year study of impaired drivers in upstate New York who killed themselves or others, showed only two who were impaired by pot, the rest by alcohol.

The many emerging teen suicide are connected with bingeing alcohol. There is no question that MTV is back in the Animal House era with heavy drinking a source of merrimentMTV needs to get into the real world and push the message that friends don’t let their friends get drunk. Smart people don’t watch MTV. It’s inane.

Pot distracts Public on Alcohol’s harm

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Ask any law enforcement official which domestic situation they’d prefer to avoid:

1) An individual or group high on liquid drugs… alcohol?
2) An individual or group high on marijuana?

Does anyone really doubt which drug has the statistically higher ratio of violence & death… even though marijuana smokers face much harsher penalties… including longer prison terms and forfeiture of assets… a drunk person would have to kill somebody to perhaps warrant such justice!

  The societial sentiments of this imbalance of justice can be traced to the advertising of alcohol particularly beer. The image of that drug is portrayed as funny and harmless. The only image of marijuana is one of addiction and endless bad results that  accompany it. Of course, the Alcohol industry benefits not only from the misleading PR, it also trashs one of it’s biggest competitors, pot.

If our drug policy were based on the harm inflicted by the drug in question, alcohol wouldn’t be advertised so freely and marijuana would be de-criminalized at the very least.