Why isn't alcohol treated as a drug even though it clearly is?

[Sad Bunny]

The point I’m making is you need to qualify your statements. There is a distinction between a drug and a harmful drug. By definition anything you ingest, inhale or inject is a drug. Government scheduling (though outdated) is a method to make that decision.
LOL

Weed is bad and for losers.

 

[KillerPups]

At least alcohol has rules about where and when you can drink. Seem like people smoking weed everywhere these days. Was in front of shop rite the other day like 3 employees blazing up like it's nothing.

 

[StatUS]

There was a time when drinking alcohol was safer than drinking water in some places. It's ingrained (no pun) in our cultures.

And Prohibition was too much fukkery for us to ever go back lol.

 

[re'up]

So why do they do it?

Two part answer:


To go back to what you said about "permission", there's a lot of truth there, alcohol socially gives permission to do things we usually WANT to do but are sometimes socially discouraged from doing, for example, being open, or being vulnerable is more permissible after a few drinks, AND because of a few drinks. Intimacy. Expressions of love or attraction.

Men are able to say I love you bro, or I love you man. Sex and sexuality also becomes both easier in some ways, and less stigmatized. "Oh I was so drunk I made out with some random hot guy" So think about the value of that.

Second part: is the two drink theory of chaos. Two drinks acts like a single cup of coffee, in some ways. It relaxes you, lowers your inhibitions, makes you more open, looser, whatever. After drink three, the chaos part comes in, and that's where most of the "bad" occurs. No one gets into a fight, or abuses someone, or spirals out of control after two drinks. It's always more than three.

That gets into the scientific properties of alcohol.

 

[re'up]

Social constructs Our societies historically used alcohol as a food item with lots of calories, it made its way into our rituals and social practices, so it became part of the cultures...

We don't have the same history with other drugs that we had access to much later thanks to globalization (coffee is a particular case).

The medical sphere does consider it a psychoactive substance though.

Liked your phrasing with those. And insight about globalization. Cocaine had be imported. Coffee has to be imported, but we made alcohol here.

 

[CHICAGO]

Because white people love to consume it. They tried that with prohibition.

Because they know white people will crash out criminally if you try to take it away.

Prohibition literally led to golden age of crime back in the day

IS ALCOHOL BANNED
THROUGHOUT AFRICA AND ASIA?

HOW IS THIS A WHITE PPL ISSUE?



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[DarkmanX]

I hate the taste of alcohol but drink to get drunk tbh.

Weed feels waaay better, esp the day after.

Only thing i hate is how i cant stop the muchies. Start gaining weight QUCKLY when smokin.

I guess the law also think that people might hop on to harder drugs eventually when tired of weed.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Because this people would literally go crazy and start beating and killing each other. You will never ever see a shortage of alcohol in this country, no matter what. They won’t let it happen!

 

[Toine]

It has ruined so many lives but still socially acceptable

 

[Luke Cage]

IS ALCOHOL BANNED
THROUGHOUT AFRICA AND ASIA?

HOW IS THIS A WHITE PPL ISSUE?



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It was banned here. I don’t think america based its decision to overturn it on africa and asia either

 

[CHICAGO]

It was banned here. I don’t think america based its decision to overturn it on africa and asia either

I KNOW IT WAS BANNED HERE
BUT ITS NOT BANNED ACROSS
THE WORLD SO ITS NOT A WHITE PPL ISSUE
ITS A WORLD ISSUE


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[Luke Cage]

I KNOW IT WAS BANNED HERE
BUT ITS NOT BANNED ACROSS
THE WORLD SO ITS NOT A WHITE PPL ISSUE
ITS A WORLD ISSUE


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stretch of logic. Prohibition was not a world issue. It was a usa issue.

there are literally still dry counties in this country because the white people locally still want it banned. Chinese had no influence

 

[feelosofer]

Liquor is extremely profitable. It provides tax revenue and is cheap and also people are drinking more than ever especially women.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

I don't understand, it's addictive, it affects your judgement and nervous system and it's bad for you. Why is it still so socially acceptable?

Simple answer. It makes too much money and it would be political suicide to do anything about it, Unfortunately we live in a world where money triumphs mortality.

 

[Peruvian Connect]

But it is. TF are you talking about?