Out of illegal drugs, which ones are less evil than alcohol?

The legal system is not 'logical'. There is no threshold where 'good' drugs are legal and 'evil' drugs are illegal. Keep in mind that less than a hundred years ago alcohol was illegal in the US MDMA was legal. These laws are pretty much established on the fears of politicians and have no value judgement attached to them. read more

No illegal drugs are evil and none are 'less evil' than others. Ranking drugs in this way does far more harm than good. It causes us to build a stigma around those drugs we think of as evil, and by extension to stigmatize the people that use those drugs. There is no benefit to stigmatizing drug users and no benefit to stigmatizing drugs. read more

Prescription drug abuse and addiction kill far more people in the U.S. every year than all illegal drugs combined. The unprecedented rise in overdose deaths in the U.S. parallels a 300 percent increase since 1999 in the sale of powerful painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin. read more

This claim has important implications because it means that legal drugs are causing more problems than illegal ones. Evidence that Alcohol More Dangerous Than Heroin. Evidence that alcohol is more dangerous than heroin has been supplied by a recent study in the UK. read more