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The government is to be urged to consider a controversial plan to reclassify drugs according to the harm they do. The new ranking system would see alcohol placed high on the scale because of its links to violence and car accidents. Tobacco, estimated to cause 40 per cent of all hospital illnesses, would also come before the class-A drug ecstasy.

However, there is no suggestion that alcohol and tobacco should be banned. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce's commission on illegal drugs, communities and public policy has been examining what it believes is a 'serious misfit between the law relating to drugs and the way in which drugs are actually used by members of society'.

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The commission, which includes John Yates, the Metropolitan Police's assistant commissioner, has heard evidence from experts and charities in a bid to find ways of making the UK's drugs laws more effective.

It has highlighted a study carried out by a team led by Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council, that suggests classification should not be linked to penalties for drug possession but rather the relative risks involved in taking them.

The study of 20 drugs - both legal and illegal - weighed up their physical harm, their relative addictiveness and the impact they have on wider society, to produce a new 'rational' league table.

Blakemore suggests current drugs laws are outdated. 'The system has evolved in an unsystematic way from somewhat arbitrary foundations with seemingly little scientific basis. We suggest a new system for evaluating the risks of individual drugs that is based as far as possible on facts and scientific knowledge. It could form the basis of a new classification scheme for the Misuse of Drugs Act.'

The Drugs league table
Drugs assessed in order of danger

1 Heroin

2 Cocaine

3 Barbiturates

4 Street methadone

5 Alcohol

6 Ketamine

7 Benzodiazepine

8 Amphetamines

9 Tobacco

10 Buprenorphine

11 Cannabis

12 Solvents

13 4-MTA

14 LSD

15 Methylphenidate

16 Anabolic steroids

17 GHB

18 Ecstasy

19 Alkyl nitrates

20 Khat

Hvordan dælen har de målt de farer?
Det er altså farligere at ryge pot end at sniffe benzin?
Farligere at tage LSD end GHB?

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Ja jeg synes også det er en lidt mystisk undersøgelse med nogle ret kontroversielle problemer. Hvilke kriterier bruger man for at bedømme om LSD er mere eller mindre skadeligt end tobak eller GHB ?

Umiddelbart lyder det ikke til at være en særlig evidensbaseret artikel.

Jeg havde på et tidspunkt den grafiske opstilling af stofferne og det var baseret på både psykiske, fysiske samt hvilket miljø du forholdsvis kom i for at få de forskellige ting.. Mener det var såen. Altså at heroin er både psykisk og fysisk skadeligt, samt den kreds du primært opholder dig i også skader dig enormt meget.

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Ja, sagen har været oppe og runde før. Jeg mener at have hørt, der spiller utrolig mange faktorer ind. Især afhængighedspotentiale for de forskellige stoffer.