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I had an debate with a friend's wife a while back (these always go over so well). That there's a bothersome logical inconsistency of having Alcohol XOR THC products (of many kinds). ie Either both should be legal, or neither.

As far as I can tell keeping alcohol legalized is simply having the moderate 59%[1] of drinkers use tyranny of the majority to enforce their freedom at deep detriment to both the hazardous/heavy drinkers (but also to everyone because the negative effects of drinking distribute to moderate/non-drinkers. I presume that this is also heavily lobbied by Alcohol industry in the US because more than 2/3rds of revenue come from heavy drinkers. And grabbing the first headline that matches my theory it seems like tax revenue doesnt cover the societal costs [2]

Related to the topic at hand it seems the societal costs of alcohol abuse is greater than drug use[3] (all drugs combine). So again, if Alcohol is Legal, then THC should be too, though I maintain it'd be even more societally beneficial to prohibit both.

[1]: https://www.recoveryanswers.org/research-post/alcohol-sales-...

[2]: https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2019/alcohol-taxes-only...

[3]: https://landmarkrecovery.com/the-cost-of-alcohol-use-disorde....




Alcohol is legal becuase we tried Prohibition and it was a disaster. America is a really frustrating country but we usually need to only learn our lesson once.




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