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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I did see that program....it did not impress me....or change my thoughts on the use of this substance.
Yes, you can buy alcohol and get off your face on it.....and some people do it.
It has a lot to answer for...but it has been available since the dawn of time.
It has been used and misused during that time.
In the US it was made illegal for a period of time.
It did not stop its' use.
Tobacco and alcohol are very large revenue generators for government coffers....so they will not bring in measures to curb the use.
Drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco does not(in the main) lead to the use of hard drugs.
Legalising these substances will not limit their use....the government would very likely tax it and this would still leave a market for illegal stuff.
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Cannabis has been around since the dawn of time. Yes alcohol was made illegal in the USA but people then started drinking bootlegged drink and the same thing happened - that a lot of people died.
I would argue that smoking does lead for some to smoke other drugs and get onto harder drugs as does alcohol. But it's the addictive personality that gets into other drugs.
There is still illegal market for alcohol and tobacco.