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= Alcohol, Ecstacy, Cocaine: Which Drug is Most Toxic? = People should be more knowledgeable about the effective dosage for their drug of choice  Most people have a drug of choice, whether it's alcohol, nicotine or caffeine, or one of the hundred or so illegal drugs, but do any of you know what the effective dosage of your drug of choice is? The effective dose is defined as the median dose that produces the desired effect for that drug. It's a variation on the Goldilocks scenario: not too much, not too little, but just right. In this video, our intrepid investigator, Professor Funk, wonders the same thing. He asks 150 people if they can identify the most toxic drug out of three choices: Alcohol, "Extacy" and Cocaine. Just for the record, and before you watch the video; what's your guess?

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Was your guess correct? Mine was, but I've participated in several grassroots campaigns to legalise weed (but that's another story entirely). As part of my fact-finding necessary to present the argument to the public, I learned a variety of facts about legal and illegal drugs, including the effective dosages for a large number of them. But like Professor Funk, I was amazed at how many people had no clue as to the toxicity of the most common drug of choice (alcohol). But this makes sense, I suppose, considering the number of people who end up in hospital emergency rooms due to alcohol poisoning every year.

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