I think another way of asking the question is 'what would happen if other drugs were made legal'.
If alcohol was made illegal again, as it was in the US 1920s, then maybe things would be worse due to lack of regulation. I don't know.
I can only stick to my idea of tests of each drug per ratio of people in terms of health and so on. I cant see any other way of proving point one way or the other, although I anticipate a certain answer.
Didn't alcohol consumption rise to record levels during the American prohibition.
And a great lesson can be learned from that, and that is you can not use power to subdue a population's attitude. You have to use education and not subjugation. Look back at the 50s and 60s, where it was the norm for a doctor to advice his patient to light up a cigarette (camel brand of course), and quite the norm to see every Tom Dick and Jane smoking in films made in that era. Who would've thought we would view smoking as we view it today. What did it? Not banning it, but making it "un-cool" if there's such a word!It was a futile exercise of power.
yes, Chris.
I am referring to both. I think the data is skewed very much against alcohol because of its widespread use.
I would be very much interested in ratios for individual/psychotic damage per 1000 heavy users of different drugs, preferably of people who don't need to do crime to pay for habit.
I hope this makes sense.
Yep, making it illegal would be stupid, not that it'll ever happenDidn't alcohol consumption rise to record levels during the American prohibition.
Vodka beer was my fav cocktail at toga themed uni guild parties
There are sound reasons why ice is illegal and alcohol is not.
I think ultimately it comes down to taxes. Alcohol is widely accepted as being an ok poison, so the governments see it as revenue.
If alcohol was invented today in our cotton wool society, it would be banned outright.
I cant really argue with last two posts.
I will just side with posts that indicate how bad some moderate use of other drugs, such as meth and heroin, can be.
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