I have joked in the past that when people say "last post" they never mean it and I really did mean it, but then I did some research. So this is a real last post on the subject and I super duper double promise to not continue this politarding.
The below graph is from the study cited above. The x-axis is in arbitrary units of random bull**** that determine how harmful a drug is.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210
According to a study by the CDC, which someone on Yahoo! answers read and summarized
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...0164820AAiaGyr
Quote:
According to the CDC, in 2006 (most recent year with data available), 75% of adults age 18 and over in the United States had used alcohol at some point in their lives. 61% were current drinkers, meaning that 14% were former drinkers who had made the decision to stop using alcohol. The remaining 25% of the population were lifelong abstainers.
According to HowStuffWorks.com, Magic Mushrooms, the least harmful drug according to the study cited above
http://science.howstuffworks.com/magic-mushroom.htm
Quote:
According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 8 percent of adults over the age of 26 in the United States have used magic mushrooms
7arbitaryunits*/0.08 = approximately 1 abritary unit per 1% of the population who has ever used the drug.
72arbitaryunits*/0.75 = approximately 1 abritary unit per 1% of the population who has ever used the drug.
And the above numbers don't account for the fact that most alcohol-users use alcohol more frequently than most mushroom-users use mushrooms. Alcohol's giant lead is largely a function of it's popularity, which was my contention 30 posts ago.
There is a debate to be had about decriminalization/legalization/the war on drugs/lol america, but any who looks at the study with any kind of scrutiny and upholds its conclusion struggles with basic rational thinking.
Last edited by Pudge714; 02-13-2012 at 05:02 PM.
Reason: *number of arbitary units is calculated by me staring at the graph and eyeballing it