Venn Diagramming the World of Drugs

Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor

March 15, 2010 • 12:00 pm PDT
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If you were to design a Venn diagram with circles depicting people with an interest in drugs and people with an interest in Venn diagrams, its sweet spot would represent a group of people who would be quite interested in David McCandless's Venn Diagram about drugs and the overlapping categories into which they fall. Full size here.

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Via Bars and Pies. Related: The Top 13 Novels About Drugs (via HTML Giant).

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