/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3378383
>Marijuana is good because it's safer to abuse!
Yes, stoners love to champion its low acute toxicity while 'conveniently' ignoring long-term mental impairment and association with increased psychosis.

>Alcohol is far more addictive and has horrible withdrawal symptoms.
As I said before, addiction is PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCY. Most drugs of abuse do not produce physical dependency, nor is physical dependency a major contributing factor in addiction. The half-life of alcohol is so short, for example, that one would already need to be addicted(i.e. psychologically dependent) before physical dependency came into effect.

Your contention that alcohol is vastly more addictive is not bore out by the data, and while the fact that marijuana has comparable dependency rates as alcohol could be used as "proof that marijuana is no worst than alcohol" this, in truth, clearly only shows the benignly of alcohol. As the criminal penalties, social disapproval and inflated price of illicit marijuana invariably contribute to more moderate usage(e.g. heroin has 1/3 the dependency rate as tobacco, but somehow I doubt this will be used as proof of that its "not addictive")

>>3367293
>they sure would have discovered that weird radiowave emitting planet in that star system over here.

>>http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html#q4.1
SETI@home is not likely to detect the equivalent of Earth type TV transmitters, even on the nearest stars.

>>3243922
>You will live to see human spaceflight become more commonplace

Nothing in space is valuable enough to justify it

>>2640274
>>2640278
>>Sexual Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men
>. . .In general, bisexual men did not have strong genital arousal to both male and female sexual stimuli. Rather, most bisexual men appeared homosexual with respect to genital arousal, although some appeared heterosexual

>>2640366
>male and female sexuality is the same