There is such thing as a slippery slope and a dam that overruneth. We’ve inherited use of alcohol over millennia —it’d be an uphill battle to rid ourselves of

There is such thing as a slippery slope and a dam that overruneth. We’ve inherited use of alcohol over millennia —it’d be an uphill battle to rid ourselves of it short of fundamentalist dogmatism. Some places in Central Asia have socialized opiate usage —but they too have unwritten rules about usage, or at least traditionally had them observed (it was a ‘luxury’ of old age). If you allow an anything goes policy, you’ll end up with a decaying society. While I don’t propose prosecuting consumption because it’s the wrong focus, we should prosecute production and distribution of hard drugs. Else you may end up with the likes of XIX century in China, or huffers in metro Manila.