UK Cuts Men's Recommended Weekly Alcohol To 14 Units (theguardian.com)

jones_supa writes: Men have been advised to drink no more than seven pints of beer a week – the same as the maximum limit for women – in the first new drinking guidelines to be released by the UK's chief medical officers for 20 years. They also advise there is no safe level of drinking for either sex, and issued a stark warning that any amount of alcohol consumption increases the risk of developing a range of cancers, particularly breast cancer. David Spiegelhalter from University of Cambridge said: 'These guidelines define 'low-risk' drinking as giving you less than a 1% chance of dying from an alcohol-related condition.'

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[Maxo-Texas]

Weed, especially as a consumable, is healthier than alcohol.

Weed has a LD50 of about 1000 pounds at 50mph. I.e. the only person who was killed by too much pot was transporting a half ton in the back seat and had a wreck and was crushed.

Alcohol raises risk of certain types of cancer by about 40% (from 12/100,000 to 17 or 18/10000).
Alcohol reduce risk of certain types of stroke by 40% but raises the risk of fatal strokes..
Alcohol (at 1-3 drinks per day) reduces risk of coronary death (which accounts for 25% of all deaths) compared to both abstainers and heavy drinkers (4+).
Alcohol increases risk of damage to the liver in a linear way.

All this is per research over the last decade. If anyone has more current data (2014/15) that contradicts this, then just link it.

It sounds like the risk change is very low to me and you should look at your relatives deaths to see what you are at risk from.
In the case of fatal strokes it seems to push forward strokes that would have occurred anyway by 3 to 5 years.