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Alcohol As A Drug: A Moral Revolution

blogcritics.org — "In terms of its effects on the human body and psyche, alcohol is simply another psychoactive substance." This sentence, with which Cook and Reuter begin their very able essay, embodies a proposition that will be taken as a truism by most readers of this journal, but would be regarded as a fallacy, an outrage, and an insult by many, if not most, or

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  • noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Prohibition was a bad idea in the 20's, why would it be a good one now?

    Anyway, Alcohol is a "soft drug" like marijuana and can be dealt with societally. I'd let the government worry more about harder drugs like nicotine and heroin (OK, heroin is quite a bit harder than nicotine, but they're both harder than alcohol and marijuana).
  • kinesis8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The US government knows better than to make alcohol illegal again. Prohibition failed before so why would they want to commit the same mistake?

    Making scientifically safer substances such as marijuanna, mdma, acid, etc. legal and therefore "socially acceptable" is an entirely different issue. When have governments ever owned up to their fallacies?
  • alpha47, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1True. It is about time the subject was broached more often in a similarly coherent manner. If drugs are illegal so should be alcohol. If alcohol is socially acceptable then so should be other intoxicating substances. Alcohol is, after all, far more dangerous, deadly and addictive than many of the illegal substances.
  • NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Alcohol As A Drug: A Moral Revolution

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