Head of Australia's leading alcohol research body calls for 'dope' to be legalised to reduce the harm of teen drinking.

Teens were "better off" on a mixture of booze and marijuana rather than just pure alcohol in social settings, Robin Room, director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research says.

Alcohol was more dangerous than cannabis because it had a closer association with aggression and violence, loss of co-ordination and impacts on work and family life, he said.

"Cannabis is not without harm but it's substantially less than alcohol and tobacco in terms of social harm," he said."If you are adding the cannabis to an equal amount of alcohol, then in some ways you'd be probably less likely to be aggressive but it's a bad idea to add it

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