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1453 sats \ 2 replies \ @JuanMiguel 27 Feb
Social Media missing on that graph. x)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 27 Feb
good point. where would you rank social media in relation to all the other drugs?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JuanMiguel 27 Feb freebie
harm score of 100, i wonder if more people share the same opinion lol
1490 sats \ 1 reply \ @arrivederci 27 Feb
There's a highly refined, crystalline substance derived from plants that they have omitted and that I would place above alcohol.
Sugar.
Refined sugar consumption at more than just very minimal amounts is a modern phenomenon (last ~240 years) and has been immensely deleterious to the health of the general population. Health effects include dental decay and malformation, diabetes and liver diseases, obesity, and more. Sugar enables modern food manufacturers to make 'attractive' low quality, highly processed foods (e.g. junk cereal breakfasts). We give sugar laden foods to children at a young age, setting up an early dependency and an estrangement away from properly nutritional foods. The sugar industry has been the instrumental cause/enabler of colonisation and slavery. Sugar addiction is almost universal, far more than alcohol addiction, and consequently much more harmful, even when some of the health effects of sugar addiction are mirrored in alcohol addiction.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 28 Feb
I thought the same too, but aren't alcohol and sugar pretty much the same?
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680 sats \ 0 replies \ @ablunderfilledlife 27 Feb
It's interesting that they included 'dependence' as a factor for harm to self but not 'co-dependence' as harm to others. Al-Anon is a pretty big testament to that issue.
I wanted to see if they weighted these things equally, and they ended up using something called swing weighting, something I am still trying to wrap my head around.
Here is another view of the data from the study:
https://m.stacker.news/17804
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564 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 27 Feb
https://m.stacker.news/17800
Funny acid and shrooms have no harm to others
Some fun stuff on that list
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512 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 27 Feb
Do you know what the 7 criteria are?
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 28 Feb
Industry interests probably..
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512 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 27 Feb
How is tobacco so low?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 27 Feb
In the paper they explain this, basically tobacco mostly harm the active user, but it doesn't harm too much others around them.
With alcohol for example, lots of people die of someone else drunk driving for example.
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512 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 27 Feb freebie
I was going to reply with exactly the same article :)
Most people think "legal=good, illegal=bad", which is not that correct in this case.
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 28 Feb
They missed sugar on the first place. btw alcohol is made out of it
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cowboy 4 Mar
Vaccine! Is missing.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joda 29 Feb
Alert the press! MDMA 50 percent more harmful than mushrooms!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MattInTech 29 Feb
Well, you know what Karl Marx believed to be the opium of the masses...
Never found anything more harmful for humanity than that. Just my personal opinion, of course.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Enemy_of_the_state 28 Feb
https://m.stacker.news/17912
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BhavikBitcoin 28 Feb
Couldn’t believe that Alcohol is the most harmful, the most??? 😳😳
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 27 Feb
I treat a lot of these... seems stupid subjective but would move alcohol way down at least below amphetamines/meth/cocaine lol wtf. I see an order of magnitude more meth cardiomyopathy than alcoholic cardiomyopathy (you have to drink a TON to mess up your heart).
Meth will also fuck up yo skin and teef so if you want to go hard go classy with cocaine like the hollywood actors and models do.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 27 Feb
Shrooms FTW!!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 27 Feb
Oh fuck.. its a joke study..
After seeing the order went reading..
When you see ketamine, methadone, and benzos being labled less dangerous by said experts.. have to be a joke 😂
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