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Cannabis is 114 times LESS deadly than alcohol
Smoking marijuana is 114 times safer than drinking alcohol.
This is according to an international study which claims the plant may be ‘significantly’ less harmful than scientists believe.
On an individual level, the study found that alcohol was the deadliest drug when it comes to the likelihood of a person dying from a high dose.
The next most deadly substances are heroin and cocaine, followed by tobacco, ecstasy, and methamphetamine.
The results of the study were based on estimating the typical human intake of each drug and combining that figure with the lethal dose.
‘The results confirm that the risk of cannabis may have been overestimated in the past,’ Professor Dirk Lachenmeier at the Chemical and Veterinary Research Office Karlsruhe wrote in Scientific Reports.
‘At least for the endpoint of mortality, the [margin of exposure] for THC/cannabis in both individual and population-based assessments would be above safety thresholds.
‘In contrast, the risk of alcohol may have been commonly underestimated.’
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