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Funkaloyd
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11-24-2005 9:35 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by mick
11-24-2005 8:50 PM

To answer your question: Because alcohol has always been legal. I'd go so far as to say that Western society has been shaped by the availibility of alcohol. Our brand of capitalism (including the 40 hour week, etc.) wouldn't go down so well without any psychoactive drugs, so alcohol fills that role.
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I don't think that prohibition is the way to go. "Denormalizing" alcohol, as has been done with smoking, would work out better.
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11-25-2005 2:43 AM 		Reply to: Message 8 by Modulous
11-24-2005 10:23 PM

Re: Why is alcohol legal?
Why is alcohol legal? Because we live in a democracy where the majority want it that way.
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Which raises the question: If the majority wanted alcohol to be illegal, should it be?
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11-25-2005 7:55 AM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Modulous
11-25-2005 7:36 AM

Re: Why is alcohol legal?
I believe that there are certain individual rights which the majority should have no say over, and the right to drink is one of those... Maybe I'll elaborate tomorrow morning.
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11-26-2005 8:10 AM 		Reply to: Message 28 by Modulous
11-26-2005 5:03 AM

Re: My body & consciousness are my business.
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This is confused somewhat by medical costs for the resulting damage you can cause to yourself and the ethics of all of that...
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Confused is right. The taxes argument is one of only two reasonable cases for the prohibition of drugs that I've heard, the other being the assertion that individuals shouldn't have the liberty to deprive themselves of liberty, e.g. through suicide or the unnecessary use of physically addictive substances.
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