The Feminist Review blog has published a great review of Marijuana Is Safer: So why are we driving people to drink?  It is just the latest positive blog review the book has received, as more and more people are hearing about it, picking it up and giving it a read. In fact, over at TheLibertyBlogger.com, they were enjoying the book so much they gave it a solid "mid-read" review.

You can find the entire Feminist Review here, otherwise we've included a couple great excerpts below and after the jump.

Experience has taught the pro-weed movement that addressing pot vs. alcohol health issues changes minds re: legalization. So pro-marijuana groups now emphasize health factors. Every year in the U.S 12,000 people die from alcohol-related illnesses; 35,000 die in drunk-driving accidents. Thousands upon thousands more are physically or sexually abused by drunken assailants. Three hundred people a year in the U.S. die from alcohol overdose. Apart from the human tragedy, it takes billions to finance the hospitals and courts this booze-created mess needs...

Marijuana, however, tends to make people peaceful; violent behaviour is hardly associated with its use. And no one dies from a marijuana overdose. Alcohol affects the lower brain stem, which regulates automatic functions. Drink too much alcohol and you could stop breathing. Or suffocate in your vomit during a blackout. Weed effects upper brain functions. Smoke too much and the worst that’s likely to happen is you’ll eat a whole key lime pie by yourself and fall asleep watching 2001: A Space Odyssey again...