More drug follies
2009-02-21 15:38:42.556533+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
New Scientist has an editorial on the ridiculousness of drug policy:
IMAGINE you are seated at a table with two bowls in front of you. One contains peanuts, the other tablets of the illegal recreational drug MDMA (ecstasy). A stranger joins you, and you have to decide whether to give them a peanut or a pill. Which is safest?
You should give them ecstasy, of course. A much larger percentage of people suffer a fatal acute reaction to peanuts than to MDMA.