Study: Alcohol 'most harmful drug,' followed by crack and heroin

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London, England (CNN) -- Alcohol ranks "most harmful" among a list of 20 drugs, beating out crack and heroin when assessed for its potential harm to the individual imbibing and harm to others, according to study results released by a British medical journal.A panel of experts from the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs weighed the physical, psychological, and social problems caused by the drugs and determined that alcohol was the most harmful overall, according to an article on the study released by The Lancet on Sunday.

Using a new scale to evaluate harms to individual users and others, alcohol received a score of 72 on a scale of 1 to 100, the study says. It was compared to 19 other drugs using 16 criteria: nine related to the adverse effects the drug has on an individual and seven on its harm against others.

That makes it almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco, according to the article, which is slated to be published on The Lancet's website Monday and in an upcoming print edition of the journal.

In related news, recent studies have found that being a member of a British nanny-state that has absolutely no business poking its nose into the affairs of its citizenry and other nations can lead to a drastic decline in colonies, world standing, and navies. More on this later.

Another report, forwarded to us by associates in the US media, indicates that legalization of alcohol is about nine-thousand times less likely to result in in a futile, 52 billion dollar per year DEA campaign to eradicate illegal substance abuse. A DEA spokesman had this to say; "We are dedicated to the impossible task of keeping people from buying crap they want to buy because our jobs are on the line and we're pretty good at making up a bunch of BS to make it seem like we're helping them. Some say that the war on drugs is a futile effort and that we're doing more harm than good, but that won't stop us from pretending to be vigilant and sanctimonious agents in this war on drugs. Besides that, our efforts against drugs have permanently silenced over 16,000 drug traffickers and buyers this year, and imprisoned another 50 thousand at taxpayer expense. If that isn't progress, I don't know what is."

The Bureau of Duping Idiots Out of Their Hard-Earned Wages by Taking Advantage of Their Morality declined to comment.