[SampleMan]

This country has experimented with alcohol prohibition, just as it now does do with drug prohibition. The same things said about drugs today have been said about alcohol: it ruins lives, it leads to hopelessness, it addicts most who try it, it's immoral and corrupts those who try it, it's poison, it kills people through disease, etc. Same old same old. I don't compare alcohol to drugs, except to say that alcohol kills ~50,000/year (which is far more than all illegal drugs put together) but rather I compare Prohibition to the drug war.

But you don't compare alcohol to drugs?! Do you read your own posts?

[coloradan]

Apparently you don't read my posts. "The same things said about drugs today have been said about alcohol" is what I wrote. It's not me who has said these things, I'm citing others. If I cite alcohol prohibitionists and drug warriors, I'm not "comparing alcohol to drugs," I'm comparing the things others say about alcohol to the things others have said about drugs. The only comparison I have made about alcohol and drugs is that alcohol is far more destructive, killing far more people each year than drugs do.