There are health risks associated with THC:

- the possibility of psychosis or schizophrenia in people 16-35 (https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/step/resources/Cannabis...)

- the same risk that inhaling any combustible has

- overeating

- cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-con...)

For some people the benefits outweigh the risks, especially when practiced in moderation.

Overeating? That's a health risk for THC?

And the last I heard, oxygen was "combustible". Inhaling a combustible isn't a health risk; inhaling combustion products might be. But many pot smokers use a vape, set to well-below the combustion temperature for their chosen herb.

> Overeating? That's a health risk for THC?

Yeah, certainly. I'm not a doctor, but weed makes people eat. Hence it's been used to help folks with eating disorders.

Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/how-to-stop-munchie...

Vapes have issues too, which include exposure to heavy metals. By combustibles I mean anything you burn. Again, not a doctor and not a medical scientist so I may be using the wrong words but most people who use weed know these things. Most notably, anything that is smoked will incur a small but sharp rise in blood pressure. If you wear a heart monitor (or wrist watch with one) it's fairly trivial to detect.

Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/health/california-cannabis-labs-...

“Maybe” alcohol has health consequences? Like 95,000 deaths per year?

Absolutely, i more made reference to how when somebody mention health impact of weed somebody else say "whatabout alcohol unhealthiness" as though it is relevant.

Of course it is relevant. Many of those 95,000 annual deaths would be preventable if a good variety of quality cannabis was more widely available and its use was more socially acceptable.

I also believe such a paradigm shift would largely eradicate domestic violence.

I had a grandfather die of alcoholism. I'd much rather smoke pot than drink alcohol and long term it's almost certainly safer from what we can tell.

It's also hard to be productive drinking but pot can have the opposite effect.