Money.
Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?
Submitted 1 year ago by 3volver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 year ago
amio@kbin.social 1 year ago
Because what is legal and not does not involve all that much logic.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think a big reason alcohol is still legal is that making it is so easy I’ve done it by accident a few times with a bottle of soda under my bed. (No, I didn’t drink it.)
Because it’s so easy and relatively cheap to make from ingredients that are basically impossible to ban - yeast spores are floating around in the air, and carbohydrates and water are necessary for human life - there’s no way to keep it from being produced.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Bro what kind of soda are you accidentally fermenting into alcoholic beverages lmao
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Coca cola, mostly. I’d drink half a bottle and drop it on my floor and forget about it, then my mom would tell me to clean my room so I’d just shove everything under the bed and make the bed.
I was not a tidy child.
RBWells@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As others have already stated, racism and conservative nonsense is the answer.
But I also think drinks are part of food culture in a way other drugs aren’t - generally when I have a drink I try to stop well short of intoxication, I want it as part of a meal. And smoking anything is bad for you - my ex wrecked his teeth smoking pot. I do certainly think it should be widely legal, and people always have and always will want mind altering substances, they need to be allowed and the harm managed as medical/social not by prohibition but it’s not like pot is absolutely benign even if it is way less likely to produce violence.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
because we already made it illegal, and we saw what happened. Weed is just the natural successor to that.
smackjack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People who drink alcohol are more likely to vote than people who use other drugs.
fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
William Randolph Hurst
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because alcoholics are often violent.
Weeders rarely are.
Banning recreational substances never works, just exacerbates the problems related with the substance.
With alcohol, those problems are way worse than cannabis, and thus it became unbearable for society to bear the effects of alcohol prohibition, while pot prohibition doesn’t really share the same problems.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you think the question is?
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Should I just copy paste the title or can we skip over that and get to the part where you get mad because you’re ignorant of the history and motivations of prohibitions?
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It took me several reads to figure it out, but I think I know what Dasus is trying to say now
Because alcoholics are often violent.
Weeders rarely are.
Violent alcoholics means that they’ll fight to maintain access to their poison of choice, whereas the lethargy that comes with marijuana will have the opposite effect.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the rich and powerful know that we wouldn’t be the most productive wage slaves possible, if we did that.
Alcohol closes the mind and kills peoples empathy. Its the perfect drug for capitalists and wage slaves alike.
fastandcurious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly i am dumbfounded always on this as well, especially since the Bible itself prohibits or at least highly discourages alcohol
Maeve@kbin.social 1 year ago
Proverbs 31, verses 6 and 7 encourage it
fastandcurious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Should you have alcohol?
The bible: Yesn’t
Conyak@lemmy.tf 1 year ago
Pharmaceutical companies don’t want it legal for one thing. There are other reasons but they along with police inions have lobbied against legalization for years.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 year ago
We tried banning it, it didn’t really end too well, as it was still available but funded a lot of organized crime, but apparently we didn’t learn our lesson when it comes to other drugs. It’s also not really practical to control as making it, in at least some form or another, is too easy. Even weed requires you have seeds from a specific plant to produce it, whereas a huge, huge variety of foods cab be fermented. It’s also got a lot of cultural relevance and history to it that make people think of it as different from other drugs
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Long story short: money, the mob, and time.
MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Idk, I just hope the Republicans aren’t successful at putting a stop to current legalization progress. Fucking fascists
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the last time we tried to ban it went really really well.
BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 1 year ago
I know this is a really common comparison, but I feel like this is also kind of weird. I personally believe both should be legal with obvious constraints in the realm of drunk driving/etc. Basically, do what you want with your body as long as you aren't risking undue harm on others.
Main point though, I don't feel like it's a sound argument to equate the legality of alcohol to the legality of marijuana. Making either illegal is shaky on their own merits and trying to put both in the same category makes both look unfavorable.
ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Corporate and industry Lobbyists
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Alcohol industry = many many billions
Delta_V@lemmy.world 1 year ago
heroin dealers too, aka the pharmaceutical industry
sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah. Why? Why does everybody believe the whole anti-drug propaganda? They hear “XY takes heroin” and you’re through for life. (Serious) I know several functioning “addicts” that essentially self-medicate their mental state. Like I did too for many years. The pills fuck you up much harder & faster. But as long as they earn money from other humans suffering…
John_McMurray@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are 11 year olds allowed to post stupid questions?
pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They seem like the people who would need it most.
nick@midwest.social 1 year ago
Lobbyists.
Nudding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Money