> I don't think our current societies' rush to outlaw everything that's unhealthy if used immoderately is a particular high ideal. If weed was introduced into o

> I don't think our current societies' rush to outlaw everything that's unhealthy if used immoderately is a particular high ideal. If weed was introduced into our lives today, it would be made illegal, and it was, and nothing good came out of that. The fact that we'd probably outlaw sugar tells us more about the quality of our political systems than it does about sugar, in my opinion. No one suggested outlawing anything. > As long as you burn it off again through physical work, sugar isn't terribly bad for you. It's when you consume hundreds of calories more than you burn every day sustained that the wheels come off. There are (at least) some adverse effects: https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(18)31606-4/fulltext https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(18)31606-4/ful...