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Originally Posted by martyh
I think there is plenty of evidence that drugs like ecstacy can be as harmful if not more than fags and booze ,the task in front of the government is deciding which ones should be allowed and which ones not .
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No,there isn't.... MDMA is nowhere near as damaging as fags and booze.
1. It's not physically addictive
2. It doesn't do a lot of damage to the body,mainly the teeth are affected cause users often grind them,and of course the heart does a lot of work through the raised heartbeat.
Alcohol damages every organ in the body,and fags.... well,we all know how bad they are,or can be.
just looking at the numbers there have been all of,I believe 400 odd deaths from MDMA since 1996....
Alcohol related deaths in 2010: 8790
Tobacco deaths in 2009 : 89000
pretty staggering numbers by any estimation,I'd say.
However I also believe that Tobacco shows a good way of how to reduce the number of addicts without resorting to punitive measures.
We've managed to reduce the number of smokers drastically in this country via education,not criminalisation. We didn't burn any Tobacco fields,incarcerated smokers and gave them a criminal record.
Education is key,imo., and trying to help people by giving them a criminal record is an oxymoron anyway.