Posted on 02/25/2015 11:28:41 AM PST by Wolfie
Marijuana is much safer than alcohol or tobacco, according to a new study
Marijuana is roughly 114 times less deadly than alcohol, according to recent findings published in the journal Scientific Reports. Of the seven drugs included in the study, alcohol was the deadliest at an individual level, followed by heroin, cocaine, tobacco, ecstasy, methamphetamines, and marijuana. Previous studies consistently ranked marijuana as the safest recreational drug, but it was not known that the discrepancy was this large.
The researchers determined the mortality risk by comparing a lethal dose of each substance with the amount typically used. Not only was marijuana the lowest of the drugs tested, but there was such a gap between its lethal and typical doses that they classified it as the only "low mortality risk" drug tested. All others were classified as "medium" or "high."
These findings contradict the efforts of law enforcement agencies around the country which, despite pockets of decriminalization (and in some cases, legalization), typically focus heavily on marijuana-related arrests. The authors suggest that, based on the results, these agencies would benefit from shifting priorities away from illicit drugs and placing them instead on keeping things like alcohol and tobacco in check. In fact, the researchers believe marijuana to be so low-risk that they suggest a broad, regulated legalization of it in the paper.
Attempts to compare the danger of particular drugs have been few and far between. It wasn't until the last decade that studies were done to classify the risk of drug abuse in a qualitative and quantitative manner, according to the authors. (They cite attempts at indexing the toxicity or ranking the harm of certain drugs as examples.) Before that, they claim, the risk assessment of drug abuse was instead based heavily on anecdotal evidence, which often meant that policy decisions were largely based on educated guesses.
The researchers clarified that the study does not suggest that moderate alcohol consumption poses a higher risk than regular heroin use. Environmental conditions, like dirty needles or unregulated supplies, contribute to the overall harm caused by using a drug like heroin. Instead, this study was specifically done to measure the deadliness of the substances themselves.
Yeah, that's what I said, you Christ-hating scum. Now you can go back to nibbling on your fire-ant.
That was gibberish, it made no sense, just like your Genesis post trying to convince us to eat marijuana sandwiches and eat poisonous plants didn’t.
LMAO! Try not to get so worked up, I was just funnin' with you. We all know you're a closet pothead.
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It’s weird that you are getting so angry that you are saying such nonsense and getting so personal.
Only if you are driving a car after chugging quite a bit of it. Heroin is unpredictable as to when you will get a fatal overdose, because the amount you need to get high is fatal. Meth, well, let’s just say it doesn’t kill you instantly, but people who take it for a long time pretty much resemble the walking dead, their bodies have been turned into horror movie material.
Super-concentrated nicotine is lethal, in fact, it’s also a powerful pesticide, but the concentrations in cigarettes usually aren’t enough to kill you that quickly, it does wear and tear on the body over time. In short, it’s not the nicotine alone that’s causing the problems, it’s the damage to the lungs that generally does more, although the effects of smoking vary from person to person.
MJ will never go mainstream or be legal until they can fix the smell. Modern MJ smells worse then a dead skunk in August that been in the sun for 5 days.
It's fairly broadly accepted that inapplicable non-sequitirs and appropos-to-nothing straw-men are useful in combatting spurious invective/innuendo in that the obfuscatory effect of crisis-level senselessness overload tends to blur whatever import the initial issue under scrutiny may have had (if, indeed, it ever had any beyond the intended smear-job thus defused...).
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(in my obviously outraged opinion) LMAO!
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See post 100, and take a chill pill.
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on.
You mean like that?
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