Paradoxical, isn't it? Here are the reason heroin and cocaine, delivered safely, are safer than alcohol. Part of this counter-intuitive claim stems from the fa

Paradoxical, isn't it? Here are the reason heroin and cocaine, delivered safely, are safer than alcohol. Part of this counter-intuitive claim stems from the fact that alcohol has common and dangerous side effects like domestic violence and automobile violence. Another part of it comes from statistical evidence showing the other compounds, when delivered safely (and not by criminal gangs) are not as dangerous as believed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/11/04/everything-youve-heard-about-crack-and-meth-is-wrong/#3503ec11e024 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/11/04/everythin... http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP325.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP325.html Finally, consider the Iron Law of Prohibition: Prohibiting a substance drives out all but the most potent (easiest to smuggle) formulations of the substance. That makes the shit more dangerous. Look, the claim is NOT that heroin and cocaine are not shit. They are. The claim is that the war on drugs has exaggerated their shittiness to justify itself.