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Just ran across an article in Science Daily introducing a new system of classifying drugs according to the actual harm they do rather than how socially acceptable they are. According to the new system, which looks at physical harm, risk of addiction, and effect on family/community, alcohol and tobacco both rank far more harmful than marijuana, LSD, methamphetamines, and ecstacy. Not a surprise at all!
If you read the article, be prepared for this disappointment: the accompanying chart, at least on my screen, was illegible.
Just ran across an article in Science Daily introducing a new system of classifying drugs according to the actual harm they do rather than how socially acceptable they are. According to the new system, which looks at physical harm, risk of addiction, and effect on family/community, alcohol and tobacco both rank far more harmful than marijuana, LSD, methamphetamines, and ecstacy. Not a surprise at all!
If you read the article, be prepared for this disappointment: the accompanying chart, at least on my screen, was illegible.
posted by Nancy at 3/25/2007 08:32:00 PM
3 Comments:
The chart was illegible for me too. I was hoping to be able to see the details referred to in the article.
I'm so not surprised that alcohol is more dangerous than just about anything, but maybe it's also because its reputation is supposedly as something innocuous. Something everyone drinks at a bbq or after a hard day at work. Alcohol has killed untold numbers of people and pot has killed none, yet pot is still the drug that is illegal. It's baffling. Okay, it's not because of the fact that it's relatively easy & cheap to grow, so it's hard for big industry to make a fortune off it, but still...baffling.
I agree!
So, it was probably bad of me, but I used my University connections (that is, the Internet and the library) to find the article, download it, and upload the graph to Imageshack.
O:-)
Link:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2350/graphsh5.png
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