Sunday, March 25, 2007

Drugs and Toxicity


This chart is from an article by Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic on the toxicity of drugs. The chart represents the level of toxicity for a few of them. The numbers represent how many more doses you would need to take of a drug to die, in relation to its effective dose. For heroin to be lethal it would only take a dose of about 5 more times its point of effectiveness. Not surprisingly, marijuana takes more than 1,000 doses for it to kill you. Read the article here.

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