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Alcohol had a very long history and entrenched industry behind it where (as far as I know) weed didn't have any thing of the sort. Old shitty things that people
by rtkwe 7y ago
Alcohol had a very long history and entrenched industry behind it where (as far as I know) weed didn't have any thing of the sort. Old shitty things that people are used to often get overlooked and a big enough portion of the population were already drinkers so when there was a push to prohibit alcohol similar to weed there was a bigger push back.
- eloff 7y agoYeah, I agree that's the reason. Alcohol is common place enough that people don't even regard it as a drug. And it goes back thousands of years, so it's long been part of society. Still it's a blatant example of how illogical us humans are.
- rtkwe 7y agoTo be a bit fairer back when weed was demonized then scheduled alcohol was going through a similar attack. It was just way more popular than marijuana which was mainly introduced as a recreational weed in the beginning of the 20th century according to this PBS [0] piece. [0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron...