“Demonizing alcohol and tobacco does drug libertarians no favors but still they do it.”
I can see how you think they’re demonizing that, but it really seems like they’re just trying to illustrate hypocrisy. We’ve got “government approved drugs” that are just as nasty, if not worse than some of the “illegal drugs” that we are spending billions trying to stamp out, apparently quite futilely.
Is 0.03 BAC enforcement excessive and confiscatory?
Is 0.08 BAC enforcement excessive and confiscatory?
How about limits on the quantity of purchase of alcohol, hours of purchase of alcohol, and age limitation on alcohol?
Do you have a problem with employer prohibition of tobacco use (even during an employee’s off hours, outside of work)?
How about smoking bans in parks, cars with children, depictions of tobacco use in movies/old cartoons/magazine advertising?
Tobacco and alcohol are “legal” but sale, production, transport, and conditions on where it may be used are heavily regulated and becoming more so every year. Dopers ain’t gonna abide by that. Even where it is “legal” all of the above may apply (including employer prohibition of employers partaking even on weekends). But dopers have spent decades talking up demon rum and evil corporate tobacco companies. The pot companies didn’t have brand names (but they did have name producers who killed people, soaked product in other chemicals, etc.). “It’s healthier”.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em but casting them as somehow “holier” has been wrong.
Dopers are even silent over the banning of fast food and soft drinks.