Worlds most dangerous drugs.. the rankings.

i dont believe that for a second. ecstasy should be way higher.

forgot meth big guy

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that is a humorous

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that is a humorous list

how is weed dangerous?...

maybe what you do after or when your blazing can become dangerous. but i don't really see weed itself as "dangerous."

hes not the one who made it

If you noticed, "big guy", there is # gaps in the list.

yah i dunno why they didnt put meth in. nevada has the higest meth use/addicts in the nation.

weed not bad or else they wouldnt use it for med purposes

haha weed and thizz need to switch, weed should be on the bottom of that list.

cant say that. forms of other worse drugs, cocaine and heroin have been and still are used in medicinal purposes.

the news is always tryn to scare you. i wouldnt quit drinkn for XTC to stay safer any day. these tests were for long term effects also

what about COMPRESSED AIR!?!?!?!

what the fuck happened to that post?

This is fucking retarded. I wish people weren't so ignorant and did some research before telling telling mass amounts of people retarded crap. Not saying you I'm talking about the news station that came up with this.

it should be like this
1) World of Warcraft
2) Meth
3) heroin
4) opium
5) booooze
6) extacy
and etc..

hmmm, weird. i wonder what thats based on. deaths? dlite is hot.

...well that is bullshit

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

come on!  weed is def the most safest drug out there.  Extasey is 18!  that is stupied i do not belive this stuff.

where is PCP?

dahh! I was gunna say that.. ^

yah thats totally wrong today i was reading an article about it
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/03/drugs_and_toxic.html
that right its crazy the least leathal drug is illegal

i was doing a project and i came across this article. The reason why E is so low is because it doesnt kill as many people a year as the other drugs do. So there may be more of a risk but not as many people do it compared to coke. So naturally coke will kill more

Alcohol worse than ecstasy on shock new drug list


James Randerson, science correspondent
Friday March 23, 2007
The Guardian


Some of Britain's leading drug experts demand today that the government's classification regime be scrapped and replaced by one that more honestly reflects the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco. They say the current ABC system is "arbitrary" and not based on evidence.
The scientists, including members of the government's top advisory committee on drug classification, have produced a rigorous assessment of the social and individual harm caused by 20 substances, and believe this should form the basis of any future ranking.

By their analysis, alcohol and tobacco are rated as more dangerous than cannabis, LSD and ecstasy.

They say that if the current ABC system is retained, alcohol would be rated a class A drug and tobacco class B.

"We face a huge problem," said Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council and an author of the report, which is published in the Lancet medical journal. "Drugs ... have never been more easily available, have never been cheaper, never been more potent and never been more widely used.

"The policies we have had for the last 40 years ... clearly have not worked in terms of reducing drug use. So I think it does deserve a fresh look. The principal objective of this study was to bring a dispassionate approach to what is a very passionate issue."

David Nutt, a psychopharmacologist at Bristol University and member of the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) which advises ministers on drug policy, added: "What we are trying to say is we should review the penalties in the light of the harms and try to have a more proportionate legal response.

"The point we are making is that all drugs are dangerous, even the ones that people know and love and use regularly like alcohol."

Professor Nutt and his team analysed the evidence of harm caused by 20 drugs including heroin, cocaine, cannabis, ecstasy, LSD and tobacco.

They asked a group of 29 consultant psychiatrists who specialise in addiction to rate the drugs in nine categories. Three of these related to physical harm, three to the likelihood of addiction and three to social harms such as healthcare costs. The team also extended the analysis to another group of 16 experts spanning several fields including chemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry, forensics, police and legal services.

The final rankings placed heroin and cocaine as the most dangerous of the 20 drugs. Alcohol was fifth, the class C drug ketamine sixth and tobacco was in ninth place, just behind amphetamine or "speed".

Cannabis was 11th, while LSD and ecstasy were 14th and 18th respectively. The rankings do take into account new evidence that specially cultivated "skunk" varieties of cannabis available now are two to three times stronger than traditional cannabis resin.

Evan Harris MP, the Liberal Democrats' science spokesman, said the paper undermines the government's claim that drug policy is evidence-based. "This comes from the top echelons of the government's own advisory committee on the misuse of drugs. It blows a hole in the government's current classification system for drugs." He said the ACMD should make recommendations to ministers on how to change drug policy based on the findings.

But the shadow home secretary, David Davis, rejected any changes that would confuse the public. "Drugs wreck lives, destroy communities and fuel other sorts of crime - especially gun and knife crime. Thanks to the government's chaotic and confused approach to drugs policy, young people increasingly think it is OK to take drugs," he said, adding that he was against downgrading of ecstasy. "It is vital nothing else leads young people to believe drugs are OK."

The position of ecstasy near the bottom of the list was defended by Prof Nutt, who said that apart from some tragic isolated cases ecstasy is relatively safe. Despite about a third of young people having tried the drug and around half a million users every weekend, it causes fewer than 10 deaths a year. One person a day is killed by acute alcohol poisoning and thousands more from chronic use.

Prof Nutt said young people already know ecstasy is relatively safe, so having it in class A makes a mockery of the entire classification system for them. "The whole harm-reduction message disappears because people say, 'They are lying.' Let's treat people as adults, tell them the truth and hopefully work with them to minimise use."

Another advantage of the new system, according to Professor Blakemore, is that it would be easy to tweak the rankings based on new evidence.

The public furore over the downgrading of cannabis from B to C, he said, showed how hard it is to change drug classifications once they are fixed. "[Our system] would be easy to use on a rolling basis, to reassess the harms of drugs as evidence developed," he said.

Weed should be below coffee.

Alcohol isn't considered a drug usually...

i bet the e they are talkin about is pure e. which isnt that bad for you. but e pills full of meth and windex are dangerous

weed should be waaay lower in my opinion

You have no credibility, i knew the list was bullshit when you couldn't even spell Alcohol properly, that list was wack.

It should have read something like...

1) Crystal Meth
2) Heroin
3) Crack
4) Special K
5) Cocaine
6) Acid
7) GHB
8) Alcohol
9) E
10) Prescription drugs

that list is fucked up....

and also.... i think there are some way more fucked up drugs out there that u prob havnt heard of... u forgot things like mescalin, peyote and a lot more... dont start threads like this unless u know a lot about drugs

much better bro...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/23/toxicity.jpg
yo heres a picture to ponder on

i sent the article that it came from?? Its not like whoever make this thread made his own results

all right people, atleast read this and stop being so fucking ignorant about everything:







They asked a group of 29 consultant psychiatrists who specialise in addiction to rate the drugs in nine categories. Three of these related to physical harm, three to the likelihood of addiction and three to social harms such as healthcare costs. The team also extended the analysis to another group of 16 experts spanning several fields including chemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry, forensics, police and legal services.

The final rankings placed heroin and cocaine as the most dangerous of the 20 drugs. Alcohol was fifth, the class C drug ketamine sixth and tobacco was in ninth place, just behind amphetamine or "speed".

Cannabis was 11th, while LSD and ecstasy were 14th and 18th respectively. The rankings do take into account new evidence that specially cultivated "skunk" varieties of cannabis available now are two to three times stronger than traditional cannabis resin.

Evan Harris MP, the Liberal Democrats' science spokesman, said the paper undermines the government's claim that drug policy is evidence-based. "This comes from the top echelons of the government's own advisory committee on the misuse of drugs. It blows a hole in the government's current classification system for drugs." He said the ACMD should make recommendations to ministers on how to change drug policy based on the findings.

But the shadow home secretary, David Davis, rejected any changes that would confuse the public. "Drugs wreck lives, destroy communities and fuel other sorts of crime - especially gun and knife crime. Thanks to the government's chaotic and confused approach to drugs policy, young people increasingly think it is OK to take drugs," he said, adding that he was against downgrading of ecstasy. "It is vital nothing else leads young people to believe drugs are OK."

The position of ecstasy near the bottom of the list was defended by Prof Nutt, who said that apart from some tragic isolated cases ecstasy is relatively safe. Despite about a third of young people having tried the drug and around half a million users every weekend, it causes fewer than 10 deaths a year. One person a day is killed by acute alcohol poisoning and thousands more from chronic use.

Prof Nutt said young people already know ecstasy is relatively safe, so having it in class A makes a mockery of the entire classification system for them. "The whole harm-reduction message disappears because people say, 'They are lying.' Let's treat people as adults, tell them the truth and hopefully work with them to minimise use."

Pussy should be on there. People kill for that shit.

haha powned

Last time I checked when you smoke marijuana you inhale smoke which causes health problems. The list is 100% accurate. You kids don't know shit.


btw im not some anti drug person I smoke just as much pot as you guys do its just facts get it right before you stick up for the drug you enjoy so much.

amen brother

carbon monoxide.

Marijuana abuse also has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens9,11. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke12. It also induces high levels of an enzyme that converts certain hydrocarbons into their carcinogenic form—levels that may accelerate the changes that ultimately produce malignant cells13. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which increases the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. These facts suggest that, puff for puff, smoking marijuana may be more harmful to the lungs than smoking tobacco.

ive read that THC eliminates cancer cells...

But the reason people claim marijuana is safe is because it is.. if your smoking water bongs or vaporizers... but more people smoke joints/blunts so that is their argument.

First off, the kid that posted this tread didn't even site his article, it looked really immature like he had no clue what he was talking about, he posted it because "He thought it was funny" then he lapse into some retarded slang and you just wish you were around to see this kid and smack him in the back of the head.

2nd, welcome to the internet. 2 second of google.

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/channel/blog/2006/10/explorer_drug.html

If you care to read any of the Blogs at the bottom of the page there are some pretty powerful testimony's to the dangers of drugs.

I will admit that I created my list above ^ after considering for only a couple of second what I thought the biggest risks were, I do speak from experience with some of the drugs for mentioned, I will also state it took me having to leave Whistler and go to Rehab for a 4 month cycle & I am now almost a One Year Clean & Sober. I attend A.A groups/NA groups every week, and will have to do so for the rest of my life. I don't care if you use drugs if that's how you want to live, I choose to change my ways. I'm enrolled in College to start this Spring.

Everything with respects to Drug Usage is Relative. My worst Drug of choice happened to be Alcohol which HAPPENS TO BE LEGAL. Problems would arise when I'd get drunk, and wake up with an empty bank account. You Dig?

Everyone is Different when it comes to drugs, and Most addicts have concurrent disorders even if it doesn't surface until your in the depths of an addiction. Someone could have a bad trip on Acid and go HelterSKelter on his best friend, Some other guy might get shot in the face over an eightball that was short, some girl might get raped because she was blacked out drunk with a drink spiked with some GHB, Some kid might smoke up his first time think he's god, Some kid might do a line at a party and realize after snoring it up it wasn't cocaine.

So go talk shit, everybody has there own story to tell. You might be straightedge, your mother might be a drunk, your sister might become a prostitute to support her meth addiction.

Theres no such thing as a list of the most dangerous drugs. Just stupid kids that want to grow up to fast on the internet.

like id make up a news story. your all fags.

i almost died from weed