Reply #59: Marijuana cannot be a "substitute" for alcohol.

[caseymoz]

They do different things, cover different neurotransmitter sites. The pharmacology is different. It's almost like you are saying substitute anti-depressants for people's blood pressure medication. Or instead of abusing cocaine, abuse caffeine.

My experience has been that at least some heavy drinkers use marijuana, too. If those drugs were actually functioning the same way, it would seem to me that one or the other would be sufficient. I've had one person tell me that for getting high they prefer alcohol to marijuana, and this is somebody who had as much access to one as the other, believe me.

Despite what they say about "getting high" there seems to be a different flavor to both highs.