Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (37772)	9/14/2010 1:05:25 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

I just shook my head when he posted that. He truly is a waste of time

To: Bill who wrote (37772)	9/15/2010 12:52:31 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

No. Neither. Like I already pointed out, it depends on what is included under the 'illicit' label. (For example, do you lump in underage children's illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, whatever? If you do, and some of the statistics do that it greatly increases the reported numbers for 'illicit use'. You have to be careful about how you define the problem else you won't know what the statistics are saying....) But, insofar as hospital admissions, over-all deaths, etc., pharmaceutical abuse leads the way by far. (Marijuana - by itself - has recorded no direct deaths. Medically speaking it is one of the 'safest' - measured by the absence of a definable mortality amount - pharmaceutical substances known to science....)