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Re:American darknet vendor and Costa Rican pharmacist charged by neuroma on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:17AM (#24068798)
Prof Nutt made and published a universal harm scale which accounts for multi dimensional harm of drugs, and potentially allows comparisons to be made between them https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109763/#B29. This work got him sacked from his lead advisory role to the UK govt, as it undermined the policy and caused embarrassment. Nutt still works in Imperial College researching psychedelics as novel therapeutics. The money shot is this https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Overall-weighted-scores-...

A recent article which contextualises the work is here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109763/

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Re:American darknet vendor and Costa Rican pharmacist charged by ethanbond on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:42AM (#24069738)
Wow this is awesome. I’ve pondered the need for exactly this sort of thing for a while as the obvious desired basis for drug policy. Shouldn’t be surprised the Nutt has done it!

Obviously it’s lossy to reduce something with this much complexity down to a single dimension but it’s still a helpful tool nonetheless.

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