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The chart on page 3 suggests cannabis has roughly the same harm to others as tabacco? And steroids present harm to other individuals? I'd love to hear these arg

• klodolph 6y ago
  That's a citation from a different study. The original study was "Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis" is based on a survey of experts, if I recall correctly, and the breakdown of the reasoning is in that study. The major contributing factors for "harm to others" for cannabis, over tobacco, are: - "Loss of relationships: Extent of loss of relationship with family and friends" - "Crime: Extent to which the use of a drug involves or leads to an increase in volume of acquisitive crime (beyond the use-of-drug act) directly or indirectly (at the population level, not the individual level)" - "Family adversities: Extent to which the use of a drug causes family adversities—eg, family breakdown, economic wellbeing, emotional wellbeing, future prospects of children, child neglect"