Some quick facts Alcohol costs the US $132 billion in drunk driving related costs a year It kills 2.4 million people in the world every year 38% of automobile fatalities involve a drunk driver 1 in 3 of you have or will be in a accident involving alcohol Studies have shown it has a worse impact on society than ANY drug, (given it's much more widely used) It is highly addictive It leads to cancer, anger, drunk driving, higher healthcare, etc. All this being said should it be outlawed? I think it would be just as successful as the war on drugs.. I see the complete opposite side of the argument where people say all drugs should be legal. I could agree with either side
Remember the war on drugs? Alcohol has become so socially acceptable it honestly makes me mad. I know I'm going to get flamed for this but I think it's as bad if not worse than many unmentionables. But society grew up with it so they feel entitled to it
I'm one of those "all drugs should be legal" people. I couldn't care less if somebody wanted to shoot up. I don't think everything should be sold in stores or anything but you shouldn't get prison time for consuming something.
What is your point? Prohibition and the war on drugs are both complete failures. Why would outlawing alcohol this time be any different than the failed prohibition?
The way I see it is there's only two sides. Either alcohol should be illegal, or all drugs should be legal. There's no middle. It's a double standard if you're in the middle. And they would just add alcohol to the drug war, hopefully legalize cannabis, and use that money to fight alcohol. If they didn't legalize cannabis then it would just further increase the national debt
I'm pretty sure war on drugs kills more people and costs more than the negatives of alcohol, so including alcohol in the war on drugs would just make it even worse.
Lol....LIFE is a double standard....not even speaking of politics and international financial interests.
Lol alcohol kills way more than the war on drugs. I think health/auto insurance should not pay if it was a drug/alcohol related accident. The bastard can go into debt. They should pay for the victim though. That's not for the government to decide though, Congress should give insurance companies the option. We should not let the government decide so much in our lives. Or maybe you gotta pay extra for drug accident insurance. I can drive fine high as balls. I enjoy drinking, but it is a much more dangerous drug than weed. The paranoia keeps us safe. Also it doesn't effect our reflexes and motor skills as much. A certain powdered drug that can be smoked or snorted doesn't effect motor skills but is incredibly addictive and unhealthy. Weed is the only drug that can't kill you. Gateway? my ass. MY MUTHAFUCKIN ASS ITS A GATEWAY DRUG. Maybe if your a redneck whose dad smokes crack, or live in a ghetto where gangs deal weed and hard stuff, and they try to get you to do the hard stuff so they make more money. I have never wanted to do any hard drugs, I'm happy with weed and booze. If you are a weed smoker who wants to do other things, just know that you are reinforcing the idea of weed as a gateway drug and you are a major asshole for slowing down the drive to legalization.
The bloodbath created by an alcohol prohibition will just start over again and become worse for control over the alcohol market. People will also still find ways to drink, and those ways can be extremely dangerous as the people making illegal alcohol just want to make shit that'll fuck you up and make them money. People mixed embalming fluid with alcohol and sold it to speak easy bars and that shit killed a lot of people during prohabition. To say that there is no middle point between legalizing drugs and alcohol at the same time is fucking stupid and hypocritical since alcohol is technically a drug. In Amsterdam you can blaze legally and they also brew Heineken there as well, Isn't that an example that both are legal. The problem in the U.S.S.A is that the drinking age creates a big problem when it comes to alcoholism. Kids are shunned from alcohol as minors by their parents who drink in front of them while spewing out bullshit that makes kids think alcohol is bad until you turn 21 so they wait till they turn 21 and drink a lot more than they should to make up for the time they couldn't. Since European kids are slowly introduced to alcohol when they are younger and taught at a young age what to do and what not to do, they learn not to drink like idiot Americans who for the most part only binge drink. Those kids are usually more mature and know how to drink responsibly. If you think making alcohol illegal will make people stop drinking you must be a fucking idiot because it will just change the location of where they get the alcohol and probably poison them. If you have such a fucking problem with drinking don't drink but don't tell people what the fuck they can and can't drink. It's bullshit enough that you can sign up for the armed forces and get killed or lose a limb but you can't drink responsibly at a bar or in the privacy of your own home even after going through that shit.
I agree completely, the health risks that alcohol imposes are worse than a decent amount of unmentionables out there, or equal to others. That shit is horrible for your body, and mind, when used alot I feel like I might get some flame for saying this also but, I feel like prohibition didnt work because it was legal already, and society already had a bunch of people that are/is/were addicted to it or not addicted but using it. So when they took it away the black market for it was huge and a fuckload of people were looking to get their drink on, since it was such a big part of society. Say for example if the needle (H), was legal and all of a sudden it became illegal, you would have the same thing, a bunch of addicts/dependent/or people used to using it, craving for it. and thus a huge black market, and the you know what that means, violence since its the black market.
Yes! A lower drinking age will never go through with organizations like mothers against drunk driving (MADD). Too much propaganda bullshit in American society. Americans once thought that weed made you want to rape and murder, that is how prohibition started. ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE STRAIGHT UP LEVEL HEADED SHOULD START A NEW COUNTRY! Fuck the shit out of the corrupt American government. We should just take the bill of rights, and the civil rights amendments.
We still get it anyways bitch. This 21 bullshit is the only reason i'm still considered a minor in this fascist nation.
Oh and to answer OP, I agree with you, I think all drugs should be legal, or alcohol should be illegal doesn't make an ounce of sense to me either.