04-15-2005, 06:52 PM
SetBuilder,Apr 15 2005, 01:45 PM Wrote:According to statisctics, the highest percentage of drug related deaths comes straight from alcohol. The highest percentage of drug related crime comes straight from alcohol. What's more, the highest amount of drug related medical issues comes from alcohol (followed closely by tobacco).
I'd say alcohol is the worst there is, apparently. Forget the other crap.
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Meaningless statistics. You can't directly compare a currently legal drug with a currently illegal drug, and then point out that the legal drug causes more problems. Currently, alcohol is consumed a lot more than illegal drugs. As well, many, many cases of crime and abuse related to illegal substances is neither reported nor discovered.
gekko
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