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| Prof. Nutt's Top 20 Most Harmful Drugs |
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| Monday, 02 November 2009 05:19 | |||
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British researcher Prof. David Nutt, who was ousted last week from the Council on the Misuse of Drugs by the Home Office because of his paper, "Estimating Drug Harms," rates marijuana the 11th most harmful drug, behind heroin, cocaine, alcohol and tobacco. "Professor Nutt was not sacked for his views, which I respect but disagree with," says Johnson. "He was asked to go because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy."
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Heroin and other opiates (a few have some innate toxicity, as does pethidine and, to a small extent, methadone) are among the safest and least necessarily inherently detrimental drugs, if administered knowledgeably. They carry with them approximately nothing in the way of actual physiological or neurological toxicity (disregarding a few uncommon exceptions such as the two substances I mentioned). Because of this, were these drugs to be legalized, they'd be, save for the addiction that they create which would then be less of a stigma and more easily treated, extremely safe for their users, the absolute worst of which would no longer have to commit crimes to get their daily fix, making society a better place for drug users and non-users alike.
Tobacco, however, will still give you lung cancer if you vaporize it.
When the issue of vaporization comes into play, all that hard work and money they spent on trying to blame the effects of setting something on fire and inhaling it go out the window.
Many legal pharmaceuticals are much more dangerous than marijuana. I wouldn't take an opiate-based pain killer if I had to (okay, maybe not if my leg got blown off or the like, but you get the point).
Doctors are dealers with an M.D.
See Tashkins' UCLA Study