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That chart is not quite right. Heroin causes no physical harm in moderate doses, though an overdose or dirty needles can kill you.
Keith Richards has been a heroin addict since the 60's.
I would probably put cannabis higher in physical harm and lower in dependance. The physical harm is lessened by not smoking and just ingesting, which would make it not particularly physically harmful. I would also put alcohol higher in physical harm.
Narcotics can be physically sparing to some extent if clean drugs and needles are used, albeit wrecked and scarred veins. However, if you have ever known junkies, they are never the same. They spend every waking hour dreaming of the high and are effectively zombies. Even recovered junkies act like they are living in "borrowed flesh" as William Burroughs would say, something is gone from their affect and ability to enjoy life.
Alcohol (more than 2 drinks) makes me wake up at 3am.
I don't need drugs! I'm high on life.
Went cold turkey from alcohol!
Went cold turkey from cigarettes!
It's none of anyone's business about my Killer Weed use. ;-)
Plausible deniability.
The physical harm is lessened by not smoking and just ingesting, which would make it not particularly physically harmful. Also, cannabis that is free of pesticides and industrial contaminants would be less harmful.
That chart is not quite right.
Cannabis users are more likely to feel deceived and alienated by others, study finds.
Cannabis users are more likely to experience negative emotions, particularly feeling alienated from others, new research reveals.
People who use marijuana are significantly more likely to feel that others wish them harm or are deceiving them, a US study found.
Brain scans also reveal the class-B drug increases signal connectivity in regions of the brain that have previously been linked to psychosis, the research adds, which is associated with severe depression.
Link between cannabis and mental health.
Dr Cameron Carter, editor of the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, where the study was published, said: 'These brain imaging data provide a link between changes in brain systems involved in reward and psychopathology and chronic cannabis abuse, suggesting a mechanism by which heavy use of this popular drug may lead to depression and...
Make all this shit legal and sell M134 at 7/11s and belt-fed ammo.
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