Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison
by DenisM on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:10PM
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Surely one could control for wealth to tease out the effect? There has to be enough overlap between two large groups.
Oh wait, here we go: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20560836/
[...] The likelihood of violence associated with crack cocaine users was greater compared to powdered cocaine users at the bivariate level. However, these differences were almost uniformly statistically nonsignificant when demographic, mood and non-cocaine substance use disorders were controlled for. [...]
There are chemical differences between crack, meth, and cocaine, so it's likely that, ceteris paribus, crack users are more violent than coke users, but it's not the only factor. It's really hard to tease out differences in the effects of the drugs when the populations of users are so different.