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Monday, September 23, 2013

CHART: Drugs That Cause The Most Harm

MOST people would agree that some drugs are worse than others: Heroin is probably considered to be more dangerous than marijuana, for instance. Because governments formulate criminal and social policies based upon classifications of harm, a study published by the Lancet on Nov., 1, 2010, makes interesting reading.

Researchers led by Professor David Nutt, a former chief drugs adviser to the British government, asked drug-harm experts to rank 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society, such as damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Other then 32ounce sodas and stuffing snacks, What crimes do marijuana smokers commit while high?

Anonymous said...

cocaine and alcohol my favorite

lmclain said...

I'm calling THAT report total BS. Tobacco rates about a 17 out of 100 on "harm to self", while pot rates about 11 in "harm to self". WHAT!? Not a single person in the history of mankind has ever been killed by pot (unless 500 lbs of it FELL on him). Not one. Tobacco, on the other hand (legalized and approved by our "leaders") outright kills several million people EVERY YEAR. It injures, through second hand smoke, hundreds of thousands more... There ARE some other statistical inconsistencies in that report, too, but I imagine that, right now, so many brainwashed sheep are in total mental shutdown and/or outrage over this comment that any more truth or information would completely melt them down. Alcohol and tobacco together have killed more people LAST YEAR than ALL of those other drugs combined in the last 200 years. Don't let the truth get in the way of your uninformed hysterics, though.

Anonymous said...

why isn't liberalism on that list? oh wait, that's not a drug, it's a form of mental retardation.

Anonymous said...

How in the heck does pot harm the user, let alone someone else?

I think people just sit around and pull these numbers out of their butts.

If they can get them past their heads, which are also up their butts.

Anonymous said...

1:54-Speak for yourself.Heroin and Ecstacy are my favorites.