Yet medical marijuana is also used to manage certain symptoms, providing chronic pain relief, stimulating the appetite and managing multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms.
So, with this in mind, you might be thinking alcohol is probably the worst of the pair.
Now, Dr Daniel Amen has set about examining the age-old question, and the results might surprise you.
“Now those of you who follow me know neither one are good for you,” he stated as a disclaimer in his YouTube video. “And quite frankly there are more deaths every year from alcohol than there are marijuana. There’s more domestic violence, there’s more drunk driving accidents, there’s more bad decisions, people ending up in jail.”
However, he said in Amen Clinic’s brain imaging study, they conducted a study where they ‘evaluated 62,454 spec scans’ and looked at ‘how the brain ages’ and what accelerated aging.
They found both marijuana and alcohol accelerated aging, and in that study, marijuana was surprisingly worse.
His insight comes as health experts have recently raised the alarm over increased hospital visits in connection with heavy weed smokers.
Emergency departments have treated patients with abdominal pain and severe or prolonged vomiting, with their common trait being they are chronic cannabis users.
The condition is known as cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), a disorder that triggers unpleasant symptoms such as nausea.
