Use this tag for questions about the use or properties of "recreational" drugs such as marijuana, heroin, cocaine or LSD.
Questions tagged [recreational-drugs]
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Does prohibition make illegal drugs less safe?
In a recent article in Mises Daily, Benjamin Wiegold argues:
The Drug War Makes Drugs Less Safe
Is his argument right that legalising recreational drugs would improve the quality of supply and reduce the harms they cause?
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Does smoking cannabis kill 30,000 people per year?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-179264/Cannabis-kills-30-000-year.html
Cannabis is as dangerous as cigarette smoking...
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[C]annabis could be a major contributor to UK deaths.
Researchers calculate that if 120,000 deaths are caused…
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Does Hamas execute drug offenders?
A CNN VICE documentary claims:
We visited Gaza's central prison, where drug users and drug smugglers alike are locked in a communal cell, their sentences ranging anywhere from one month, to death by hanging.
The New York Times goes on to…
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Is the cannibal drug (Methylenedioxypyrovalerone) linked to biting attacks?
The consumption of this drug is popularly connected to the possibility of attacking other people via biting.
Some sources that reference the former are:
Cannibal Drug: MDPV Effects And Similarities To Flakka
In this source it clearly states that no…
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How prevalent is the use of drugs (other than alcohol) to spike food/drinks?
A few years ago, I worked in nightclub security. During my training course,* the instructor told us that it was common for people to come up and claim that they had been spiked with something, but that in 92%† of cases it was just excessive alcohol…
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Does most illegal fentanyl sold in the US come through Mexico?
The Atlantic claims:
most illicit fentanyl used in America, where 32,000 people died from fentanyl last year, comes through Mexico. Mexican cartels lack trained chemists to make fentanyl from scratch, so they buy precursors in bulk from China.…
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Are cigarettes addictive?
At least one person has published alleged doubts about whether cigarettes are addictive, with their doubt/claim being supposedly backed by at least one scientific study.
Is this a reasonable question (for example is there a good definition of the…
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How lethal is Fentanyl in humans?
In this video by CNN's Sanjay Gupta entitled "How dangerous is Fentanyl?", he can be heard saying at the end
"[Fentanyl] is so powerful that just a quarter of a milligram can be fatal"
Is that true? What do we know about the lethality of Fentanyl?…
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Does legalizing drugs (controlled substances) actualy lead to a decrease in their use?
The two memes below make the claim that legalizing drugs will actually lead to a decrease in their use.
Image states:
Portugal, A Real Land of the Free. In 2001 Portugal decriminalized personal possession of all drugs. Opponents predicted a…
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Are Facebook Likes similar to cocaine addiction?
The Financal Times reports:
Dopamine jolt behind internet addiction
The effect on the brain is similar to what makes drug addicts reuse cocaine
Kristen Lindquist, professor of psychology at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, says social…
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Do U.S. police (sheriff) departments earn money with drug busts?
Allegedly there is disproportionate amount of U.S. police effort to perform drug bust versus fighting other classes of crimes, as the law allows them to confiscate property, which then can be sold with proceeds going directly to the police…
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Did Harry Anslinger say these things?
Harry Anslinger is often said to have been xenophobic and racist, and that his hate against nonwhites and non-white culture was a driving force in his wish to prohibit cannabis. This is often substantiated with quotes from him.
There are 100,000…
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Do pharmaceutical companies contribute to anti-drug campaigns?
According to an article by The Guardian, a pharmaceutical company called Insys lobbied against marijuana legalization in Arizona; and then was approved for a cannabis-derived pharmaceutical five months later.
As marijuana legalization swept the US…
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Can I get high by snorting chocolate?
Ok, I understand this sounds ludicrous but people are claiming you can get high by snorting chocolate:
Unlike alcohol, meth, cocaine, speed and even drugs like LSD and psilocyben [sic], the newest thrill, popping up in night clubs and raves around…
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Are these homeless people drug addiction figures accurate?
I'm sure you've heard the claim before that
Giving money to homeless men and women is just supporting their drug
addiction.
But how true is that claim?
In any instance where I've tried being generous and buying them food -as opposed to simply…
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