You seriously cannot equate beer and liquor to marijuana, meth and cocaine. You might as well solve our murder problems by surrendering in the WOM.
That is the better analogy.
Yeah I can, because in the end they’re all just mind altering substances that people use for entertainment and sometimes get hooked too. Out here in reality, away from the WOD hyperbole, alcohol is one of the most addictive substances around, with significantly nastier (even potentially fatal) withdrawal symptoms than almost everything we’ve made illegal. So the real problem with equating beer and liquor to marijuana, meth and coke is how much worse beer and liquor are for your body.
And I’m not actually drawing analogies, I’m pointing out that we have legal mind altering substances that don’t have most of the problems that surround the illegal ones. And with the legal ones we’ve already shown how abjectly making them illegal failed, and how it CREATED all those black market problems, and how re-legalizing got rid of them. Remember ALL of this stuff was legal once upon a time, and none of them were more of a problem when they were legal than they are now.
It’s not surrendering, it’s admitting the stupidest mistake in the history of the country.
You’re right. Alcohol is far more destructive than marijuana.
Two-thirds of murder cases are solved - the fraction of drug transactions that are even detected by authorities is certainly orders of magnitude lower.