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You should really read it to understand why, though. With every valid study producing similar results, why does drug law continue to exist the way it does?
BBC News - Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says Prof David Nutt
You should really read it to understand why, though. With every valid study producing similar results, why does drug law continue to exist the way it does?
Last edited by Stark; 11-01-2010 at 04:07 PM.
Originally Posted by Brains
Meh. Is this study basing its findings on anything other than the fact that alcohol is more widely used, readily available and legal?
Here last week they found this couple out in California they would rent out rooms to old people and then kill em and bury em in the yard and cash their social security checks. They'd torture em first, I don't know why. Maybe their television was broke.
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Cool we should legalize heroin and crack.
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Have you ever seen someone suck dick for a Miller Lite?
Nope. They base it on total cost, which is fucking beyond retarded. If they actually scaled it on a per user basis, they wouldn't be able to scream alcohol sucks and push a pro legalization stance
They are just saying that alcohol has a bigger detriment on society as a whole than heroin. Junkies usually just destroy their own lives, and complicate their families lives. Drunks routinely kill and injure both themselves and innocent people.
So no heroin users kill innocent people? Illegal drugs don't fund you know....narcotics cartels that murder thousands annually? If it isn't scaled per capita, then it's useless data
It's complete bullshit. Alcohol is used by say 2 billion worldwide, heroin by 100 million, are you going to be surprised when alcohol costs more to society?
Yeah this is pretty obvious, especially when you consider the criteria. Alcohol tears many more families apart than crack or heroin.
Scaling per capita would not be applicable for a study like this. If you're looking for which drug is most harmful on society as a whole you don't scale per capita. You look at the overall numbers.
Why stop at alcohol? Water on it's own probably kills more people than alcohol...
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