It's pretty damn clear as to how bad alcohol is. People went to jail, and lives ended because of alcohol. The downside is huge, arguably overwhelmingly not a ne

It's pretty damn clear as to how bad alcohol is. People went to jail, and lives ended because of alcohol. The downside is huge, arguably overwhelmingly not a net positive for humanity. Make of that what you will. Note that I didn't say we shouldn't have the right to put alcohol in our bodies. There are also negative consequences to prohibition, as we have seen with the drug war. It's a disaster.