bbc documentary lists 20 worst drugs

who ever made that list doesnt know what they are talking about just another load of disinfomation put out by the mainstream media.

 

They listed 1 person having died from cannabis.Who was he????

 

its infomation like this from the bbc that causes the public to be poorly informed about drugs ad adds to confusion of young people.

 

sorry for the spelling mistakes.

 

The bbc is forever putting out documentarys that contain biased and untrue infomation, some people may call them "hit pieces".

 

yea GHB and e is WAY healthier than weed. don't you guys know your shit?

 

i guess that makes sense if they're talking about danger combined with its effect on society. im guessing weed is so high on there because they think it has a negative impact on sociey, not because it's unhealthy.

 

Yup, it's from an independent study (commissioned by the british government early last year) that ranked drugs in the harm they cause collectively to the individual, society etc combined (purposefully not taking into account how much less harmful they'd be if legal). It's hilarious that the people that define government policy over here are telling the government they're completely wrong yet they still won't listen...

This was their results summed up briefly with classifications... In the UK Class A is harder drugs down to Class C being soft drugs/prescription meds etc...



EDIT 2: THis is based on the harm they cause to users and UK society at large, not necessarily what harm they cause to individuals where laws are different (and where laws are harsher on users than they are in the uk)..

edit: link to study on which the programme was based... http://www.ukcia.org/research/developmentofrationalscale/DevelopmentOfARationalScale.pdf

And contrary to popular belief, the BBC is not actually that biased, they were sued by the government for telling the truth over Iraq (the BBC won in court) and the programme was broadcast on (public funded) national TV last night (we only have 5 channels here) happily stating to middle england that ecstacy is safer than alcohol... Despite their shortcomings that's not being biased at all IMO...

 

Thats fucking pathetic

In terms of ruining lives in accordance to wide usage:

1. Meth
2. Heroin
3. Crack
4. Alcohol
5. mdma
6. Inhalants
7. Prescription abuse; oxycontin
8. household highs

Tobacco is a habit, doesn't fuck your life over
For how many people smoke weed compared to the people that claim to be negatively affected by it; not a harmful drug its herb come on

Lsd, shrooms etc. not widely used enough to be proven detrimental to mental or physical health, its not a problem at all

 

i would definatly put mdma as 8 seeing as it doesn't really ruin your life. oxycontin on the other hand will leave you fucked and should be 4 on the list.

 

wow its 'official' solvent abuse is safer then are sweet sweet herb. thats stupid weed doesnt negativly affect society i mean as bill hicks says have you ever seen i drunk guy get in a fight? yes have you ever seen a high person get even angry? no.

 

LSD is probably the healthiest drug if you currently don't have a mental illness. since marijuana will fuck up your lungs, i think it's reasonalbe to place it above LSD. ecstasy on the other hand, that stuff is only healthier if it's pure MDMA. but since it's got amphetamines, and all that other shit you just can't trust it.

 

give me a break, oxycodone is pretty much on the exact same level as heroin

 

Some people have a habit of being serial killers.
Tobacco will fuck with your life more literally than that phrase usually means.



They rated the drugs on so many factors that I definitely think weed should be somewhere on the list. Smoking frequently will mess up your lungs, even if that's the worst they can really come up with as far as health effects. I think a big factor in weed's placement is the social effects. More people go into rehab or prison for weed than anything else, so it gets moved up a few notches. It inarguably has lots of negative effects on society, but of course the study didn't address the fact that if it were legal most of those would dissappear.

 

damn those potheads

 

Full list?

 

In terms of ruining lives in accordance to wide usage:

1. Meth
2. Heroin
3. Crack
4. Alcohol
5. mdma
6. Inhalants
7. Prescription abuse; oxycontin
8. household highs

It depends how you rate it, if it was in order of most harmful reguardless of how widely used I'd say
1. inhalants
2. more inhalants
but inhalants aren't used as much as other harmful drugs

 

The list was based the collective harm on UK SOCIETY and UK INDIVIDUALS as it was a UK STUDY. Not just 'according to wide usage'... Personally I think the list is very accurate and paints a good picture of the current state of affairs in this country. Plus, the study was commisioned by the government to inform themselves and so they can review drug policy FFS, that's a good thing- you think the US gov. would pay for an official study to shape policy that publicly announced in no uncertain terms that Cannabis, MDMA and LSD are safer and less harmful to the individual and society than script meds, alcohol and tobacco??

Your list means nothing in relation to the study this thread is about- Meth is not a problem over here at all, no-one takes the stuff- it's pretty rare in most cities. Prescription drugs are definitely worse than booze and again, they're not popular over here recreationally like they seem to be with half the people in this forum... Maybe because we try not to have the habit of dosing our kids on script meds from an early age... MDMA is an extremely safe substance when administered correctly, over here only idiots take E pills, anyone with a few braincells buys crystal mdma which is not madly expensive, very safe and has minimal side effects if you know what you're doing. Prohibition causes people to take contaminated substances, pills etc and not have the correct information on how to take drugs safely.