[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Originally Posted by Matata

Au contraire:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/daily...ause_most_harm

Spoiler!

Speaking as someone who's sampled a few things, Alcohol is a hard drug, one of the hardest.

Damage associated with alcohol is more often chronic damage, liver cirrhosis, encephalopathy and the like. There are obviously people who do have alcohol toxicity but a lot of the costs are associated with chronic alcohol use. The number of people who use cocaine is also obviously less than the number who use alcohol, for obvious reasons. I think to downplay cocaine by saying that it similar to alcohol, which people can safely enjoy recreationally is downright ludicrous.

Also according to your own statistics cocaine is around 1.5 times as harmful to the user and I can't access your article.