[A.J.Armitage]

Not for alcohol, because the VAST majority of citizens are capable of using it responsibly.

But alcohol can and does have the same kinds of effects on a very large number of people.

[Texaggie79]

Lets say you have a small child. You are forced to decide on allowing an intoxicated person to watch that child. Your choices are a person intoxicated on alcohol, one on cocaine, one on crack, one on heroin, one on LSD, or one on Meth. Which would you choose. Sure there can be deviance from the norm, but hopefully you are going to go with the odds.