WHO actually said cocaine not so bad

First, let me state for the record that I don't post these tidbits of news about the war on drugs because I think everyone should go out and get high. I post them because I think it's ridiculous how much anti-drug propaganda there is out there that contradicts what the experts actually say - but we never get to hear.

Case in point - in the 1990s, the WHO conducted a huge study on cocaine use around the world and published its findings. Except that the US representative to the WHO basically said "publish the report and we cut our funding." And the report officially never existed from that moment onward. What did the report say? In part:

"Health problems from the use of legal substances, particularly alcohol and tobacco, are greater than health problems from cocaine use,” they said. “Few experts describe cocaine as invariably harmful to health."

The article that brought this up is quite interesting.