Thread: Drug law reform
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Old 11-12-2012, 17:47   #36
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Re: Drug law reform
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Originally Posted by Matt D View Post
How about the Lancet studies that I linked to earlier, and also linked to in however many drug threads we've had over the last few years? The studies carried out by doctors, pharmacologists, psychiatrists and other experts that concluded that alcohol and tobacco were more dangerous than cannabis and ecstasy, and that the current classification system is "arbitrary"?

2007 study by Nutt, Blakemore, et al:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...rugsandalcohol

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...464-4/fulltext


2010 updated study:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...ck?INTCMP=SRCH
Nothing wrong with those at all ,i certainly wouldn't dispute them but the lancet is by doctors for doctors so that will be biased at the other end of the scale .
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