New study says ecstacy, marijuana safer than alcohol
Smoke 'em if you've got them
A new study published last week in the UK says that both the party drug ecstacy and the herbal remedy marijuana are safer than alcohol.
The scientists behind the study believe that drugs and alcohol should be ranked by the amount of harm they do rather than the current A, B, C divisons in the UK Misuse of Drugs Act.
The authors of the study say the current system overestimates the risks of ecstacy. Ecstacy only claims the life of an average of 10 people each year compared to the hundreds who suffer alcohol related deaths. Marijuana is involved in even less cases than both.
In the study, alcohol and tobacco were compared with restricted drugs such as marijuana, LSD and ecstacy. Tobacco and alcohol scored in the upper half of the table measuring more harm than all of these three drugs.
This study, however, doesn't seem to offer any support to the legalization of any of these drugs; so don't get excited that you'll soon be able to order tabs of ecstacy or joints from the bar. It doesn't look like that will happen any time soon.
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Just so all you dumb asses know..... go to your local drug store and look at the wall of drugs the FDA has approved. then choose one out of all of them any one it does not matter, hell pick 100 of them. Then go home and reaserch that drug/ drugs. What you will find out is that every one of those FDA approved drugs have killed people than Marijuana has ever killed.
FDA drugs- 1,845,656,156+ Monday morning
1,845,656,157+ Monday noon
1,845,656,158+ Monday Night
Marijuana- 0 people have ever died
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