drug dangers: out of their league?
September 24, 2007 by Cash
My recent fascination with better living thru chemistry led me to an assessment of ‘true’ drug dangers in relative terms. The results should shock the puritanical prohibitionist in all of us.
When it comes to danger, cigarettes and alcohol beat ecstasy, LSD and cannabis, according to a league table of the harm they cause.
The UK Science and Technology Select Committee, which advises the government, commissioned an assessment of 20 legal and illegal stimulants to examine the actual social and physical harm they cause based on scientific evidence.
Read the insightful details here. Via New Scientist
I know someone with a Kitchen Aide Mixer… It’s real nice.
I agree that it should challenge prohibition based on comparable legal substances. However, just because it’s not as bad as something else doesn’t make it good for you.
Definitely. I personally like the scientific perspective given people’s often moral/uninformed/misguided by media scare-tactic perceptions.