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by zasdffaa 1534 days ago
> They’re absolutely zero studies that show that these compounds are either safe or dangerous. Anyone saying that they’re either has a bias.

Your ignorance does not indicate lack of research in the real world.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt>

In 2007 Nutt published a controversial study on the harms of drug use in The Lancet.[17] Eventually, this led to his dismissal from his position in the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD); see government positions below. Subsequently, Nutt and a number of his colleagues who had subsequently resigned from the ACMD founded the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, which was later re-named Drug Science.[18]

(read: the uk government didn't like what he had to say, that drugs weren't totally appalling meritless things, so they sacked him)

from that wiki page

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.sv...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Development_of_a_rational...>

But the next time drugs comes up you'll doubtless post the same thing.