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   From: bbaka@comcast.net   
      
   Gareth wrote:   
   > Vicko Zoomba wrote:   
   >   
   >> To a certain degreeit was his own downfall.   
   >   
   > IHMO Only is as much as he didn't keep his mouth shut.   
   >   
   >> He publicly stated that   
   >> "youve got more chance of dieing by falling off a horse then by   
   >> cannibis" where he should have said "there are more fatalies involving   
   >> horse riders than by the use of cannabis".   
   >>   
   >   
   > Do you mean that although more people die from riding accidents it   
   > doesn't necessarily mean riding is more dangerous because there may be a   
   > lot more people riding that taking ecstacy (I'm sure he was talking   
   > about ecstasy not cannabis).  If that is what you mean then prof. Nutt   
   > did take the number of episodes into account.  The paper can be found here:   
   >   
   > http://jop.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/23/1/3   
   >   
   > From table 1 it appears that horse riding caused acute harm to a person   
   > once in 350 episodes while ecstasy caused acute harm once in 10,000   
   > episodes.   
   >   
   > Gareth.   
      
   He should have shut up before mentioning LSD or Ecstasy. Big mouth blows   
   Pot argument. Horse riding killed Superman on this side of the pond.   
   That statistic I'm sure everyone knows.   
   Damn Kryptonite horses.   
   Bill Baka   
      
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