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Researchers: Alcohol Health Risks Underestimated, Marijuana Relatively Safe

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-so-bad-after-all dept.

schwit1 writes Compared to other recreational drugs — including alcohol — marijuana may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use. They found that at the level of individual use, alcohol was the deadliest substance (abstract), followed by heroin and cocaine.

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  1. Re:FFS by camg188 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every single person that I know that drinks alcohol drank milk first.

    Milk. Not even once.

  2. Re:FFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think so. In university some pharmacy or chemistry guys could scrounge pure ethanol. (98 or 99%.) Screwdrives with that were nasty.

    But nobody became addicted to that after 1 or 2 dozes, have they? Heroin, on the other hand, is so addictive, a decent percentage of humans get hooked after only a few dozes.

    Yep, any human who only has a few dozes, immediately becomes addicted to sleeping for the rest of their lives.