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Worth remembering that Alcohol is more dangerous than most illegal drugs, including meth, ecstasy, hallucinogens etc.
By what metric is meth less dangerous?
Missed this so late reply, but there are a bunch of papers concluding both personal and social harms are higher for alcohol and I think also nicotine
Results: Alcohol, heroin and crack emerged as the most harmful drugs (overall weighted harm score 72, 55 and 50, respectively). The remaining drugs had an overall weighted harm score of 38 or less, making them much less harmful than alcohol. The overall weighted harm scores of the EU experts correlated well with those previously given by the UK panel.