In your mind, you extrapolate out that conclusion, but it wass not a valid intertwining there.
You asked specifically if I wanted a reinstatement of alcohol prohibition. I said no.
On other occasions I specifically addressed why I wanted the prohibition on drugs to remain in place.
Your attempt to state my views on alcohol and drug prohibition were the same, was just sloppy and you know it. I never said or implied my views on drug prohibition was based on a whim.
I hadn’t said I wanted the prohibition on drugs to remain the same without cause.
I did state I did not want to change the status of alcohol at this point. I just don’t think it’s a good idea to shake things up on it. It is what it is. It can remain the same as far as I am concerned.
The only reason I mentioned it was to address the issue of legalization not alleviating all the problems with alcohol consumption. Legalization vs prohibition both present major problems.
My premise is that legalization of drugs will not end all the problems.
Of course not - and nobody here has said or implied otherwise. But criminalization of drugs, like the criminalization of the drug alcohol before it, has limited effect on the extent of drug use, while doing much to enrich criminals with all the ills that follow. Restoring the legality of alcohol was the right choice, and so would be restoring the legality of other drugs. Not so as to shake things up too much; legalizing marijuana is as far as we should go as the second step (alcohol having been the first).