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You are sort of right. However people are not encouraged to drink petrol, whereas we are bombarded with advertising messages about the glamour and sophisticatio

by retube 16y ago

You are sort of right. However people are not encouraged to drink petrol, whereas we are bombarded with advertising messages about the glamour and sophistication of alcohol. I was sort of going off on a tangent, and playing devil's advocate really. The drugs legalisation debate is picking up steam in the US and Mexico (I wish it would in the UK) and I was just having a bit of a rant - I think it's incredibly hypocritical that alcohol is legal, whilst pot - demonstrably less damaging - is outlawed.

sliverstorm 16y ago
> I think it's incredibly hypocritical that alcohol is legal, whilst pot - demonstrably less damaging - is outlawed. Not necessarily; IIRC the reason pot is not legal is (or was) because there was not sufficient scientific evidence it wasn't about to pull a Thalidomide. There are plenty of things that are perfectly healthy that are illegal; that is because we haven't proven they are perfectly healthy yet.