Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose nation is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter.
“Blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) of 0.31% to 0.45% are considered life-threatening. The lethal dose of alcohol is about 5 to 8 grams per kilogram of body weight (g/kg).”
Google tells me 1 shot of whiskey is about 14g of pure alcohol, so a fatal dose for someone weighing 81kg (180 pounds) would be 29 to 46 shots, or 43.5 to 69 ounces. (Nice!)
Well, we also don’t include all the drunk driving deaths, or the “he gets like that when he drinks” abuse. Is cocaine worse? Yea probably. Is drinking safe enough for the favourable comparison just because it’s harder to OD? Ehhhhh…
I mean, yeah, but if you had it regulated to the point where people could dose accordingly, it would lower overdoses. Street stuff, you could get a batch 5x more potent than the last and take the same amount and die. I’ve always been a legalize and tax all drugs person. People are going to do it regardless, and making it illegal creates cartels and clogs up the jails with nonviolent offenders.
The point is how much you need to take for an active dose (eg getting drunk/high) and when you take this into account - it’s actually more likely you’ll kill yourself getting drunk than doing coke.
I mean, yes, but by the same token beer is far less lethal than whiskey. Our response to that is to sell beer in pints and whiskey in smaller glasses. Just wondering why such an approach would be impossible for drugs.
Way easier to die from cocaine…
“The lethal dose of cocaine is 82.5 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg).”
https://www.addictionresource.net/lethal-doses/cocaine/
“Blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) of 0.31% to 0.45% are considered life-threatening. The lethal dose of alcohol is about 5 to 8 grams per kilogram of body weight (g/kg).”
https://www.addictionresource.net/lethal-doses/alcohol/
Google tells me 1 shot of whiskey is about 14g of pure alcohol, so a fatal dose for someone weighing 81kg (180 pounds) would be 29 to 46 shots, or 43.5 to 69 ounces. (Nice!)
A standard 750ml liquor bottle is 25.3 ounces.
Well, we also don’t include all the drunk driving deaths, or the “he gets like that when he drinks” abuse. Is cocaine worse? Yea probably. Is drinking safe enough for the favourable comparison just because it’s harder to OD? Ehhhhh…
I don’t even know where to being with that. But we at least know you don’t drink.
Oh, that’s definitely true. If I have one beer I puke for three days:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17659-alcohol-intolerance
I mean, yeah, but if you had it regulated to the point where people could dose accordingly, it would lower overdoses. Street stuff, you could get a batch 5x more potent than the last and take the same amount and die. I’ve always been a legalize and tax all drugs person. People are going to do it regardless, and making it illegal creates cartels and clogs up the jails with nonviolent offenders.
Now how many average sized lines of cocaine is 82 milligrams?
I guess it depends on the line, but 1/8th of an ounce is 3.5g, 2 of those could be fatal for someone 180 pounds.
https://pacificsandsrecovery.com/what-is-an-eight-ball-of-coke/
That’s quite a large amount of coke though
And as the normal route is too snort it, I’m pretty sure you will have a hard time to get that much stuff inside you at once
Right but you don’t chug a pint of cocaine
Nah, that’s what the gallon of liquid meth is for.
Definitely true! I hope nobody chugs a pint of pure alcohol either!
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For a 180 pound person, 81 kg, the fatal dose would be 82.5mg * 81 = 6,682.5mg / 1,000 = 6.7g of coke.
An 1/8th of an ounce of cocaine is 3.5g.
https://pacificsandsrecovery.com/what-is-an-eight-ball-of-coke/
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It’s the Yanks tool again.
The point is how much you need to take for an active dose (eg getting drunk/high) and when you take this into account - it’s actually more likely you’ll kill yourself getting drunk than doing coke.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drug_danger_and_dependence.svg
I mean, yes, but by the same token beer is far less lethal than whiskey. Our response to that is to sell beer in pints and whiskey in smaller glasses. Just wondering why such an approach would be impossible for drugs.