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Originally Posted by Matt D
But the doctors and other experts who carried out these two studies did not simply say "drugs bad" for everything.
They looked at a wide range of drugs, legal and illegal, and a range of types of harm, and ranked them accordingly, giving them scores for types of physical harm to the user, social harm to others, and overall harm.
Don't seem to have the bias you say, and as mentioned previously they actually concluded that e.g. alcohol is more harmful than various illegal drugs (including ecstasy). Physically harmful and socially harmful.
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Ok Matt ,you managed to find surveys that aren't biased well done you ,i didn't say it was impossible i said that it was hard
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just serves to prove how hard it is to find unbiased and accurate info
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and i was correct because the study you linked to was inaccurate at first so it was redone moving alchohol to a class A drug and being the most harmful ,i don't dispute that ,but is the study realy suggesting that drinkers should be punished or put on the same level as crack users ?,what punishment is suitable for the most harmful drug ?
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"What we are trying to say is we should review the penalties in the light of the harms and try to have a more proportionate legal response.
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Surveys like that may be useful to number crunchers but ultimately society will decide what they want ,and at the moment a large part of society seems to want to take drugs maybe even the majority