“Alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs including the hallucinogen LSD and the dance drug ecstasy, according to a new scale for assessing the dangers posed by recreational substances … [It] shows that the dangers they pose bear little relationship to the official classification, on which the penalties for drug use are based … The report comes a fortnight after an independent commission called for a radical overhaul of Britain’s drug laws which it said were driven by a ‘moral panic’.”

I totally agree. From The Independent, here.

Posted Saturday, March 24th, 2007 @ 3:00 am
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