Feb 08 2010
10 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than Weed
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Note: I’m Chris from Knuckles United. Me and my buddy Lenny thought it would be a good idea to debate whether weed or beer are better for your consuming pleasure. Here is my argument for beer over weed. You can check his argument for weed out here.
I’d like to start this off by saying that there are only a few employment practices and legality issues that keep me from forgetting this argument even exists. That said, I am a corporate employed individual that wants to keep his job and I like to somewhat stay law abiding. Here are, in no order, 10 reasons why beer and alcohol are better than weed.
Beer doesn’t reduce my lung capacity
I can drink my whole life and still be able to run marathons, play sports and walk up a flight of stairs and not be winded. A pothead that is as hardcore on weed as I am on beer would not be able to breathe after just a small jog. Below is a nice juicy picture of a smokers lungs.
Beer doesn’t stain my walls, hands and make my clothes stink.
Everything about smoking weed is gross. Hardcore potheads will have resin stains on their fingers and hands, their clothes will smell like ass, and the inside smokers will typically have a nice ash infested house.
I can drink all I want and still pass a drug test at work.
Most major corporations these days have some sort of drug testing policy. As long as I don’t go to work wasted, passing those tests won’t be an issue. I can smoke a bowl the night before and theoretically be jobless the next day.
Beer won’t send me to jail or land me a big fine.
If used within the limits of the law, beer and alcohol will not get you into legal trouble. You can stockpile as much beer in your house that you want. On the other hand, you can be as sober as a baby and get pulled over with weed in your car and find yourself with a nice fine or worse depending on how much you have.
You can’t buy weed at sporting events or concerts.
Granted beer in it’s $8-10 glory sucks, you can still enjoy a nice golden frosty beverage while in public. Pull your bong out at a football game and watch the circus begin. Beer and other forms of alcohol in most cases are the backbone to many businesses. The restaurant and tourism business would be severely crippled without alcohol sales.
Beer is more socially acceptable than weed.
On the same lines as buying beer in public, the average person would not blink an eye at someone drinking in public, but if someone starts hitting a pipe or rolling a blunt there will be instant awkwardness. Pot smokers are typically incognito, only letting other people who smoke know that they too smoke.
Drinking beer is cheaper than smoking weed.
I don’t know the prices of weed around the country or world for that matter, but I would be willing to bet that alcohol is cheaper by a long shot. I could drink for months on the cost of an average bag of weed. Give me a 4 dollar six pack and I’m set for the night. Give me 4 dollars worth of weed and all I am is pissed.
Drinking beer doesn’t effect the people around me.
This may not always be a bad thing, but smoking around others can give them unwanted second hand smoke and even a contact buzz. My beer is for me only. My beer and alcohol won’t make others around me smell like a dirty ashtray.
Drinking beer won’t make me stupid.
I don’t mean drunk stupid either. It may be a fallacy, but potheads typically have the stereotype of being a little on the slow side. That might just be because they are always high or maybe they’ve smoked away too many brain cells.
Beer can make me a monster in the sack.
I don’t know the science of it all, but there is something about getting a nut while drunk, and by something I mean it takes 27 hours and 15 minutes and ends in vaginal holocaust. That’s not a rule to live by, but how many weed smokers have gained extra endurance from a night with a bong?
I’d like to thank Lenny for letting me talk at you guys…you were listening right? Hey man…you there? Damn stoners. Until till next time!
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wow. this entire excerpt is rediculous and down right stupid. It must of been some drunk idiot college student who wrote this one. Shame for even posting it. Shame. Main problem is he's getting tobacco problems mixed up with downright ignorant lies. I see little truth here about weed at all.
is this for real? i can complete refute every statement in here and say that this is a reason why smoking is better than drinking. people who dont smoke dont know a damn thing!
terrible article. sure if you are a filthy smoker you'll be filthy, but thats on you, not on smoke. and the social ones are directly tied to illegality. and finally it is weed, not beer, that makes sex best. terrible article, terrible.
Wow. The utter ridiculous-ness of each of these points is flawed in every way. The fact that this inaccurate garbage is on this site angers me to no end. Take this down.
It seems like everyone else realized that each point can be disputed mainly because a lot of these reasons are just opinions, not based on fact. But he does have a right to his opinion, let him enjoy his beer
who is the asshole that wrote this? marijuana doesn't reduce brain cells nor does it affect lung capacity. I run 3 miles a day and i have a scholarship 2 an acclaimed private university
Get this shit off of here. Not only are nearly all of these wrong, but it's the bullshit I have to hear when I'm around every other idiot who thinks marijuana is a "gateway drug" and bad for you. The reason I come to this website is so that I don't have to abide some dumb dude telling me about how he's such a hardcore drinker that he downs a 4 dollar six pack every night.
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wow. this is a fail. "Chris", you ignoramus, you need to get yourself some AA.
god made weed. Man made beer. who do you trust?
Horrible article. This makes me lose a little faith in HMJ for posting it. Most of these statements are lies based in ignorance, and brainwashed stupidity.
"Can't run a marathon, dumb pothead" … I am a Master's student in Mechanical Engineering and I snowboard about 75 days a season. I also mountain bike during the summer. I am a pothead. Everyday, no exceptions.
LoL. Glad you guys liked the article so much. Chris is a cool guy and I don't even think he believes all that stuff. The articles are meant to be funny. You guys rock though for being ride or die for the weed.
The dank I just smoked disagrees ><
Yeah, you guys are mad intense. Love that shit. We wanted to swap posts and this was what we came up with. I told him from the get-go I was going to get raped. Mission accomplished. Next time should I do the top 10 reasons why weed shouldn't be legalized?
Kidding.
Hey I love weed AND beer, but yeah everything in this article is dumb, I guess that's the whole point, as Chris and Houroc just said. Cheers and blaze up.
What is this, amateur hour on HMJ?
"There's something about getting a nut while drunk" Seriously Houroc, you need to get the trash outta here if you want your site to be legitimate. If you want it to be like every other nameless stupid blog on the internet, keep up with the stat quo.
And to answer your question, cannabis absolutely makes sex better. It puts you in tune with your lover to a degree that slapping your dick in and out of a girl for 2 hours because you can barely stay hard can't.
its not saying beer is better than weed
its saying there are aspects of beer that are better than those of weed
i still think 1,7,8, and 9 are bull but this guy could prolly make a list of ten reasons weed is better than beer
wow this is really a huge let down for this site. The only thing this list accomplishes is degenerating this site to new low levels of crap.
“I told him from the get-go I was going to get raped. Mission accomplished.”
really? you wanted everybody to think your clueless fuckwit and downgrade the site from the very beginning?
mission accomplished retardo
please tell me this is supposed to be some kind of joke, you cant be serious… Without out a doubt one of the biggest let downs. Please do some actual research, and try and get a script for medical brew? Not a single case of emphysema… but your right beer is more socially acceptable than marijuana, but that's a sad truth.
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Terrible post. Get this shit off here.
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oxymorons are funny…
i used to like this site cus it was pro weed and it had alot of cool and funny shit but alot of stuff that gets posted is anti marijuana. how do you post something like this on a website called HAIL MARY JANE?
i agree wit all potheads this article is a shame weed is always a please wit beer it hits u in the rear
lol why is there a weed bashing thread, on a weed site?
man im tripping HARD lmao
how and y is this on this web site
I thought smoking marijuana increased lung capacity? It sure seemed to for me; growing up I couldn't even keep running for a quarter of a mile without having to stop and getting severe cramps/painful breathing. My endurance is much, much better now. Of course you probably also have to take into account cigarette smoking, which closes up the airways. Cannabis actually works as a bronchial dilator, meaning it opens the airways and lungs and makes it easier to clear them out through coughing and whatnot. This is why weed is recognized as a cure/treatment method for asthma. Do a google search on it and see everything that comes up.
Stoned sex is the best I have ashma and weed has made my lung capacity much better, I also got A’s in all my GCSE’S and A levels, and beer just tastes like stale piss, at least you don’t have a hang-over after getting stoned.
I was pissed too. until I read all the comments.
lol why doesn’t anyone read the comments anymore
HAHAHA this kid better be joking? or atleast I hope he claims to be joking, because if not then , wow…I think they have special classes for people like him. U know that the weed plant and Hops(ingredient in beer) are related? Ya Hops even looks like a big nasty marijuana bud. But hey weed never caused cancer, or even made walls in a house yellow or dirty, that was all tobacco BIOTCH. And 1 last thing…Beer fucks up your LIVER, which is way more needed by the human body than a set of lungs. Not to mention that you can consume pot in other ways besides toking it…..hmmmm so does this make Marijuana KING? As long as our parents(the government) tell us not to, then consider me a rebel mother fuckers.
He doesn't have the right to voice his opinion if he hasn't researched facts.. Alcohol is a MAJOR killer of braincells, weed doesn't kill a single braincell, and that's just one of the facts he got grossly wrong… Beer is still awesome though…
I wont ever come back to this site again because of this article. ignorant dumbass
pretty funnyy, hella stonedd
Both are unnatural substances that are being put into your body. Water instead of alcohol and Oxygen instead of marijuana. I mean how simpler could it get? If really you have nothing better to do or have no idea how to have fun sans weed, then you really have no idea what life is about. But then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Am I contradicting myself?
i like to think that my beer and weed go hand in hand.. they are my buddies.. i cant just choose one!