> control being one of the central I could agree that inebriated, fried brains are easier to control by the rich. Sale of alcohol was always a mean of controll

> control being one of the central I could agree that inebriated, fried brains are easier to control by the rich. Sale of alcohol was always a mean of controlling populace and extracting wealth from it. > Alcohol, for example, lowers stress, and inhibitions in general, so it's easier to strike up a conversation, or to share a vulnerable secret and feel good about it, or to start dancing. Ale those things are super easy, when the culture doesn't force you to drink first to allow you to do them. > And substance abuse can be partly done for self-harming reasons. And therefore it's very bad taste to assert that people doing this "don't have a brain". Self-harm is never smart.