The drug league table
The UK Science and Technology Select Committee, which advises the government, commissioned an assessment of 20 legal and illegal stimulants to examine the actual social and physical harm they cause based on scientific evidence. Here is the table they developed:
More info in New Scientist
Interesting to note that alcohol and tobacco rank higher than many illegal drugs that we were told by authorities will surely fry our brain, like LSD, pot and ecstasy.
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One thing that's hard to account for is that, when a drug is illegal, its illegality pervades the experience. For example, I think the paranoia associated with smoking pot largely stems from it's illegality. For me, after smoking pot in the United States, when I smoked pot in Amsterdam I felt like I saw marijuana's true character for the first time. So I think it's difficult to predict the effect that legalizing a drug would have on society since its very legalization will change the phenomenon of the drug experience.
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