Cannabis spent 88 years as a Schedule I substance — officially more dangerous than cocaine, according to the federal government. Meanwhile, the thing sitting in your medicine cabinet right now kills 500 Americans a year. The processed meat in your fridge is classified in the same carcinogen category as tobacco. And loneliness, per the U.S. Surgeon General, carries the same mortality risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Here are six completely legal things that, by the numbers, would like a word.
