New Study Says Alcohol More Harmful Than Cannabis

The UK is under going a reclassification of “harmful substances.”  The last time the UK put these classes into place it was 1971.  The new system pictured below, “rates some illegal drugs as less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.”

In the study, “alcohol was rated the fifth most harmful drug, ahead of some current class A drugs, while tobacco was listed as ninth. Cannabis, currently rated a class C drug, was below both those legal stimulants at 11th.”

“The MPs said including alcohol and tobacco in the classification would give the public “a better sense of the relative harms involved”.”

This is one of the first times I’ve seen a Western government, outside of the Netherlands, take a modern approach to drug classification.  No telling where this could lead.