Your liver can take a level of alcohol without it hurting your body. Your liver can filter alcohol without taking damage.ravensheart18 said:It's poison, your liver breaks down toxins in your body. Yes, it helps your heart, and on the down side:
Alcohol can also increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. Two drinks a day can increase a healthy woman's risk by 10 per cent ? or more if there is a family history of the disease.
Red wine can also trigger migraines in people who are susceptible to them, probably because of the accumulation of histamines and tannins from prolonged contact with the skin of the grape during the fermentation process.
Wine can also elevate your triglyceride levels. High triglyceride levels are associated with health problems such as diabetes.
Drinking wine ? or any other alcoholic beverage ? can also lead to weight gain. A glass of wine contains about 120 calories and no nutrients ? that is, empty calories. Get together with friends, have a few glasses of wine along with a small plate of hors d'oeuvres, and you're approaching your total recommended caloric intake for the entire day. If you're not active, before long, your waistline will be in expansion mode.
Worldwide, drinking causes almost as much harm as smoking, according to the World Health Organization. The agency estimates that alcohol causes 1.8 million deaths around the world every year; about a third of those deaths are accidents that could have been avoided.
The WHO also estimates that worldwide, alcohol causes or plays a role in 20 per cent to 30 per cent of all cases of esophageal cancer, liver cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, homicide, epileptic seizures and traffic accidents.
Even in France, attempts have been made to make the country more aware of the potential pitfalls of alcohol. A 2005 report urged the French government to snap out of its state of national denial and take urgent steps to address the problems of alcohol abuse. The report found that alcohol was directly responsible for 23,000 deaths a year in France and indirectly responsible for 22,000 more.
The report's author, Hervé Chabalier, said one person in 10 in the country is ill because of the effects of alcohol.
That report is one of many. And I'll bet you that most of the people they're referring to in that report abuse alcohol. If you drink alcohol in small, controlled amounts, it does NOTHING to you, and even can be beneficial.
More importantly, why are we even discussing alcohol? This is a topic about Pot, is it not?
The bottom line for me is that Pot fucks your lungs, fucks your brain, fucks the people around you, and there's no way around that. It's illegal for a reason and should stay so.
And for the whole "Well, cigarettes are legal", yeah, I know. If I had it my way, they'd be illegal too, but I'm guessing cigarettes being legal is just a compromise.