Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Re: Highs and lows of drug decriminalisation Dear Editors, Drug decriminalization for personal use could be acceptable from the civil rights point of view. It cannot be acceptable, though, if other people get harmed, as this research study clearly demonstrates. [1] Motor vehicle crashes make more victims every year than wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, over a ten year period! [2][3][4] References [1] http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e536 [2] http://icasualties.org/ [3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/17/afghanistan-casualti... [4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10634102 Competing interests: No competing interests 21 February 2012 Stavros Saripanidis Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Private Surgery Thessaloniki, Greece
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Re: Highs and lows of drug decriminalisation
Dear Editors,
Drug decriminalization for personal use could be acceptable from the civil rights point of view.
It cannot be acceptable, though, if other people get harmed, as this research study clearly demonstrates. [1]
Motor vehicle crashes make more victims every year than wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, over a ten year period! [2][3][4]
References
[1] http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e536
[2] http://icasualties.org/
[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/17/afghanistan-casualti...
[4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10634102
Competing interests: No competing interests