Saturday, February 28, 2015

How Infographics Lie About Reefer

Here's a graph to show you the relative dangers of various substances, most of which are legal and some with little or no restriction.  Each bar shows how much of the stuff you need to consume before it will kill you.



The lie can be exposed without any huge analysis as the numbers at the bottom are what do it.  The interval from 1-10 is about the same as 10-100 which is about the same as 100-1000.  In other words, it artificially compresses the extremes and the relative difference between each is distorted heavily by it.

For everything that scores ten or less, not much is needed to kill you.  Things don't improve much for a score of 10-25.  All of these things are deadly when abused.  The top two are Valium and reefer and both score 100+.  They are four to nine times less likely to harm you than anything else on there yet the chart makes it look like they aren't really all that much different.

My understanding of Valium is that it has a very low toxicity and you can gobble the stuff without dying.  I've never heard of reefer killing anyone so maybe a bale of it fell on some smuggler.

Kids need truth about drugs and they won't get it from parents when they are fed lies as well.  The above chart isn't just ridiculous, it's dangerous.

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