{"id":6126,"date":"2010-11-01T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2010-11-01T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:10:07","slug":"this-will-come-as-a-surprise-only-to-drug-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/this-will-come-as-a-surprise-only-to-drug-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"This will come as a surprise <em>only<\/em> to drug warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent British study totted up the effects both on the individual and costs to society of various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-11660210\" target=\"_blank\">legal and illegal drugs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Most-harmful-drugs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Most harmful drugs\" width=\"476\" height=\"508\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Most-harmful-drugs.jpg 476w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Most-harmful-drugs-140x150.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the <em>Lancet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser who was sacked by the government in October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>It ranks 20 drugs on 16 measures of harm to users and to wider society.<\/p>\n<p>Tobacco and cocaine are judged to be equally harmful, while ecstasy and LSD are among the least damaging. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to DarkWaterMuse, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An interesting result, no doubt, but one thing the researchers failed to do is to aggregate the harm due to <strong>all<\/strong> illicit drugs, or even a handful of drugs frequently abused by the same users. Seems to me this would likely reveal alcohol as relatively benign though it&#8217;s not clear how <em>additive <\/em>the effects are.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent British study totted up the effects both on the individual and costs to society of various legal and illegal drugs: Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,66,9,53],"tags":[119,322,199,513],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-health-science","category-law","category-politics","tag-drugs","tag-nannystate","tag-prohibition","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}