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by peterwwillis 3685 days ago
I like how marijuana and psilocybin have no negative side effects and it's taken hundreds of years to be taken seriously as clinical treatments.

Meanwhile, according to the FDA, there were "56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations, and 458 deaths per year related to acetaminophen-associated overdoses during the 1990s. unintentional acetaminophen overdose accounted for nearly 25 percent of the emergency department visits, 10 percent of the hospitalizations, and 25 percent of the deaths [per year]." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Liver_damage