{"id":26207,"date":"2016-11-29T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=26207"},"modified":"2016-11-28T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:22:50","slug":"alcohol-vs-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/11\/alcohol-vs-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol vs. marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"marijuana-34353_640\"<\/a>California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada legalized recreational marijuana in the last election, joining Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and our nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

This trend has the alcohol industry worried. \u00a0The fear is that as people pick their poison, they will choose marijuana for their intoxicant instead of beer or liquor. \u00a0Some alcohol companies are giving money to anti-marijuana legalization efforts and re-adjusting their long-term plans.<\/p>\n

I remember hearing that Willie Nelson praised marijuana because it helped him stop drinking. \u00a0Alcohol reportedly made him mean; marijuana made him mellow.<\/p>\n

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Could it be that marijuana would be better for society than alcohol? \u00a0Or would wide-spread marijuana use just give us a land of Lotus eaters<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Read the story in the Financial Times<\/em> after the jump.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0<\/span>US drinks industry ponders effect of cannabis legalisation<\/a>, Financial Times:<\/em><\/p>\n

This Thanksgiving, Californians may have been tempted to include an additional ingredient in their pumpkin pies. Marijuana was legalised<\/a> in the US\u2019s most populous state this month, reflecting a mellowing of social attitudes towards the drug.<\/p>\n

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