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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
fine. so one of the 300 compounds in marijuana makes you paranoid. check.
similarly, there are hundreds of compounds in beer but one of them (alcohol) makes you plastered. what's so hard about that?
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Actaually there are other chemicals in alcoholic drinks that intoxicate you, apart from ethanol, such as methanol. The darker the drink the more of these other drugs there are. So something like vodka is going to have hardly any or nothing of these other drugs, whereas guinness will fuck you up. It's why different drinks get you drunk in different ways and also why the hair of the dog hangover cure works. Methanol breaks down in the body into formaldehyde, which is a big cause of hangover, but ethanol slows the breaking down of the methanol and so alleviates the hangover.
Also Everyone should look at this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...rugsandalcohol