Turns out, 'magic' mushrooms are responsible for the lowest percentage of emergency ward visits, followed by cannabis in second place, and LSD and cocaine in joint third place.
At the other end of the chart, methamphetamine, synthetic cannabis, and alcohol carried the most risk of a trip to the local emergency ward, leaving MDMA (ecstasy) and amphetamines in the middle of the drug safety table.
The survey took in responses from 115,523 people across more than 50 countries. Nearly 10,000 participants said they had tried magic mushrooms in the past year, with 0.2 percent of those needing a trip to the hospital after their drug-induced trip.
That was the lowest percentage figure in the survey by some distance, but researchers are keen to point out that no drug use is entirely harmless - and there are plenty of other risks associated with drugs that don't necessarily land you in hospital.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @06:26PM (4 children)
> ...and there are plenty of other risks associated with drugs that don't necessarily land you in hospital.
.....and there are plenty of other risks associated with life that don't necessarily land you in hospital.
ftfy
(Score: 3, Touché) by ikanreed on Monday January 07 2019, @09:01PM (3 children)
"Other problems exist, so please ignore this thing that has very obvious, very large risk dimensions" is never a good argument. It's a pointless, obviously inaccurate false equivalency.
"People can take informed risks if they want to" is a fine moral and subjective position to take, but your argument for the same thing is about 1000x worse because your reasoning sucks.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday January 07 2019, @10:37PM (2 children)
And what exactly are the very obvious, very large risk dimensions of shrooms that you're speaking of?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 07 2019, @11:17PM (1 child)
Let's see if you can figure out what I was referring to with "SCREAMING CHOCOLATE EIGENFUNCTIONS!"
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday January 08 2019, @08:30PM
Don't know about Screaming Chocolate, but do know about eigenfunctions.
You studied functional analysis?
-- hendrik