http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131 A study that was recently released in the UK under the direction of <A HREF="http://www.bris.ac.uk/neuroscience/research/groups/pidetails/80">David Nutt</A>, has called for a new framework for classifying drugs - a framework that classifies drugs based on "their actual risks to society" which would include adding alcohol and tobacco to the list of drugs needing regulated. <I><BLOCKQUOTE>According to existing British drug policy, alcohol and tobacco are legal, while cannabis and ecstasy are illegal. "<A H en-us Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:15:47 EST Thu, 3 May 2007 08:50:02 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#8 <a href="http://sexe.cristovision.com/absolutPETITECHIENNE/">y1</a> <a href="http://sexe.cristovision.com/adultePETITECHIENNE/">y2</a> <a href="http://sexe.cristovision.com/aimePETITECHIENNE/">y3</a> <a href="http://sexe.cristovision.com/analePETITECHIENNE Thu, 3 May 2007 08:50:02 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#7 To answer your question more pointedly, just move the measuring stick slightly to the side, allowing more things that pose an "actual risk to society" to be legal. My concept of acceptable risk is less conservative than his and I believe the vast majority Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:17:14 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#6 Well, yes, basically I don't believe prohibition works with ingestibles. You can label it, you can regulate it, you can educate, but at the end of the day people are going to put into their bodies what they want. The "War On Drugs" and 1920's era alcohol p Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:11:53 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#5 <i>I simply can't imagine what additional limits one would want to put on tobacco</i><p> You could <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2112449/">ban it</a> like Bhutanit...er, Bhutan.<p> Seriously, though, I agree that the regulation or overregulation of some Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:31:59 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#4 It's quite laughable that anyone would even intimate that alcohol needs <i>further</i> regulation. There are bad things in this world, things that do damage to us humans like cancer and head colds and escaped lions. But you can't ban them. Making up laws a Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:54:56 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#3 <i> I always thought of my alcohol as a screw driver.</i><p> Yeah. A screw driver shoved through your temples. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:34:13 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#2 Gee I always thought of my alcohol as a screw driver.  Unless I add a splash of cranberry juice to it.   Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:10:24 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/17498/6131#1 "If recreational drugs were tools, alcohol would be a sledgehammer." - Aaron White, PhD. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:38:02 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/