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Could Legal Marijuana Help Curb Prescription Pill Abuse?
The other substitution effect is worth some study.
One of the most important questions about legal marijuana is this: Will it be a substitute for booze, or a complement?
Typically, marijuana users are less dangerous than their boozy counterparts. While neither the heavily stoned nor the drunk are safe drivers, the latter is more prone to violence. (Criminologist Mark Kleiman calls alcohol "the #1 date-rape drug.") We should want people who are of legal age and sound mind to choose marijuana over alcohol; and we should want them to never mix the two.