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>>uptown+(OP)
Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?

>>Popsic+51
How do you know LSD is mostly harmless?

>>hebdo+Oa
A few years ago, David Nutt and other drug experts rated the relative harms of drugs and found LSD was among the least harmful.

These were the evaluation criteria: drug-specific and drug-related mortality, drug-specific and drug-related damage, dependence, drug-specific and drug-related impairment of mental functioning, loss of tangibles, loss of relationships, injury, crime, environmental damage, family adversities, international damage, economic cost, and community harm.

Infographic: http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/or...

Original study: Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_old/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf