> It's mental that for £20 I can pop into any off-licence, corner shop or supermarket in the land and buy enough alcohol to literally kill myself
If you're concerned about that, boy have you got a lot of other things to start being concerned about. You can kill yourself with pennies worth of water, or £2 of petrol and a match, or jump off a building, or...
My point of course being that while it might be a little unsettling to look at the alcohol aisle and think "enough of that could kill me", there's a million easier, cheaper and faster ways to attain the same thing.
You are sort of right. However people are not encouraged to drink petrol, whereas we are bombarded with advertising messages about the glamour and sophistication of alcohol.
I was sort of going off on a tangent, and playing devil's advocate really. The drugs legalisation debate is picking up steam in the US and Mexico (I wish it would in the UK) and I was just having a bit of a rant - I think it's incredibly hypocritical that alcohol is legal, whilst pot - demonstrably less damaging - is outlawed.
> I think it's incredibly hypocritical that alcohol is legal, whilst pot - demonstrably less damaging - is outlawed.
Not necessarily; IIRC the reason pot is not legal is (or was) because there was not sufficient scientific evidence it wasn't about to pull a Thalidomide.
There are plenty of things that are perfectly healthy that are illegal; that is because we haven't proven they are perfectly healthy yet.
If you're concerned about that, boy have you got a lot of other things to start being concerned about. You can kill yourself with pennies worth of water, or £2 of petrol and a match, or jump off a building, or...
My point of course being that while it might be a little unsettling to look at the alcohol aisle and think "enough of that could kill me", there's a million easier, cheaper and faster ways to attain the same thing.