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Major study debunks myth that moderate drinking can be healthy.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
LONDON (Reuters) - Blood pressure and stroke risk rise steadily the more alcohol people drink, and previous claims that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke are not true, according to the results of a major genetic study.
The research, which used data from a 160,000-strong cohort of Chinese adults, many of whom are unable to drink alcohol due to genetic intolerance, found that people who drink moderately - consuming 10 to 20 grams of alcohol a day - raise their risk of stroke by 10 to 15 percent.
For heavy drinkers, consuming four or more drinks a day, blood pressure rises significantly and the risk of stroke increases by around 35 percent, the study found.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:30PM (1 child)
While, I don't advocate for the use of Alcohol in anything except medicine. I think we've been too ban happy with regards to things that people want to consume. Instead of learning our lesson from Prohibition, we've placed lots of "recreational" drugs on the list of prohibited things. I would suggest a better alternative would be to regulate the safer "recreational" drugs as we do Alcohol. At the same time, we could still be against things like the use of Fentanyl. Perhaps we could narrow our list of prohibited drugs down enough, where we could possibly even stem the tide of dangerous drugs that are killing people. That's assuming, doing something like that wouldn't create an even bigger problem. Can't know until you try, though. In any event, at least the government would be getting a cut and perhaps we could do something good with that.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:55PM
OTOH, I do think that banning commercial advertisements by anyone except the actual vendor to anyone except reasonably potential customers should be illegal, and subject to a moderate per instance of violation fine. $500 sounds about right, with percentage decreases for "I had reasonable grounds to think that was a customer" down to, say, $25 (and all intermediate values at the discretion of the judge). But in particular going to a web page should explicitly not be reasonable grounds unless the web page was "property of" the vendor.
That said, under those circumstances I'd be in favor of even most class 1 drugs being made legal. My exception would be for antibiotics, and possibly a few other medical drugs.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.