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Re:I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone by Produce on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @08:19AM (#3734002)
>I then reviewed your source and concluded, "I don't think that what you've posted really supports your claim that the WHO finds recreational cocaine usage to be less hazardous than drinking enough to get drunk."

That's because he couldn't provide the source he was thinking of. The source he did post demonstrates why he couldn't find it.

>I can't actually find the article, but http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/13/bad-scie.... suggests it was suppressed by the U.S. government, so I must have read a leaked copy that I can't find anymore.

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Re:I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone by carbocation on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @10:15AM (#3734472)
No. I read that article and it did not even hint that the WHO endorses the thing that the GGP suggests. Plus the evidentiary standard even for Internet discussion is higher than this. One can't say "a paper was suppressed, somehow I magically saw it even though nobody else did, and therefore you cannot refute my on-its-face improbable statement."
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