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(CBS/AP) What's worse for us, alcohol or crack cocaine? Careful - this isn't a no-brainer.
A new study says alcohol is more destructive than illegal drugs like heroin and crack.
British scientists, lead by Dr. David Nutt at the University of Bristol, evaluated these three drugs, as well as ecstasy and marijuana (20 drugs in all), ranking each of them on the following criteria: physical harm to the user, how addictive it is, and the effect of its use on families, communities, and society.
They included economic costs like health care, social services, and prison.
Heroin, crack and crystal meth are deadliest to the individual user, the study showed, but when their wider social effects are taken into account, alcohol is the most damaging, followed by heroin and crack.
Experts said alcohol scored so high because it's so widely used and has devastating consequences not only for drinkers but for those around them. Excessive drinking damages nearly all organ systems, and is also connected to higher death rates. It's also involved in a greater percentage of crime than most other drugs, including heroin.
Marijuana, ecstasy and LSD scored far lower, according to the study, published in the "The Lancet."
Experts said the study should prompt countries to reconsider how they classify drugs. Last year, Britain increased its penalties for the possession of marijuana.
Michelle says sugar is more dangerous than crack or likker. such a smart, caring woman…
So here is more proof that the laws on all "illegal" drugs are based not on fact and truth, but were designed to profit companies who make "legal" drugs. If we want to end most of the deaths, abuse from the use of all drugs, we must first stop lying about the truth and stop basing laws on fraudulent facts presented as moral and upright.
Lets start with U.S. Patent # 6630507 which is held by the U.S. Health Department and states that cannabis is a healing plant with hundreds of medical uses. Then lets reschedule marijuana as a non toxic, non addictive natural resource which can be used for over 25,000 industrial uses.
People who smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, use herion, smoke crack all have been found to reduce that use when presented with a alturnitive which is non toxic, pot. That also means lower crime rates, lower prison felons, lower money wasted on endorsing discrimination against hippies, the last unclassified minority left in America, numbering in the Tens of millions.
consider the source…London. Brits cant drink, they just hang out on the island opposing dentists and inbreeding, eating bland food, and fawning over royals.
I've tried most drugs, and I'm pretty sure alcohol is the most potent. We here in the US are the biggest users of illegal drugs in the world, yet we are pretty productive. Little ole Spain (where wine and beer are considered food and is regularly given to kids) is more productive than the entire Islamic middle east where alcohol is forbidden. So what's all the hullabaloo about? End prohibition of drugs and let the cops go after real criminals.
what about lsd? i know someone who took it and thought they were a glass of orange juice and tried to drink themselves?
" Scientists say" Which "scientists", the same pseudo jerks that always call themselves "scientists"
Pot can not kill you be oversmoking.
the 3 others legal or not
can.
why is it illegal?
paper.
If heroin and cocaine are less harmful than alcohol, why don't we legalize them?
We tried to ban alcohol, and the ban was better than a Harvard MBA for the likes of Al Capone, Tony Accardo, and Sam Giancana.
My own grandfather, a good hardworking man, brewed his own beer in
Oak Park, IL. during the years of the prohibition.
Alcohol is only more dangerous because it affects everyone around the user, and not just the user themselves. You can shoot heroin once, OD and die on the floor, but too much alcohol is more than likely to waste a few other people with you.