We have all these laws everywhere that put an iron foot down with the notion that smoking is bad. Smoking anything at all. Cigarettes, marijuana.
Okay, fair enough. Yet the laws are unbelievably lax when it comes to drinking alcohol. Tequila, liquor, beer, wine, vodka.
This is even though alcohol leads to a multitude of crime and other social problems. Drunken frat parties on college campuses. Date rape. College campus rapes. Drunk driving.
Just so we're clear, in no way whatsoever am I excusing people's behaviors when they are drunk. There is no such thing as "under the influence" in the sense that it therefore absolves people's behaviors when they are drunk. Drunk people voluntarily, consciously chose to get drunk. Drunk people chose to get behind the wheel and endanger the lives of innocent people on the road.
Drunk people chose to
Alcohol is not some sort of mystical powerful force, wherein ingesting it [[conveys]] possession by an evil spirit.
But where is the consistency?
If drinking anything at all is okay, then smoking anything at all should equivalently be okay.
From what I have read in studies and polls and seen on news reports, smoking cigarettes does not lead to severely impaired driving. Smoking cigarettes does not lead to foggy thinking nor slurred speech, [[bad judgment, Smoking cigarettes does not lead to violent crime.
Alcohol leads to a hell of a lot more
I personally have never touched a drug or cigarette, etc. in my life. But I can easily detect the ridiculous inconsistency in the laws regarding any and all kinds of chemical dependencies.
Okay, fair enough. Yet the laws are unbelievably lax when it comes to drinking alcohol. Tequila, liquor, beer, wine, vodka.
This is even though alcohol leads to a multitude of crime and other social problems. Drunken frat parties on college campuses. Date rape. College campus rapes. Drunk driving.
Just so we're clear, in no way whatsoever am I excusing people's behaviors when they are drunk. There is no such thing as "under the influence" in the sense that it therefore absolves people's behaviors when they are drunk. Drunk people voluntarily, consciously chose to get drunk. Drunk people chose to get behind the wheel and endanger the lives of innocent people on the road.
Drunk people chose to
Alcohol is not some sort of mystical powerful force, wherein ingesting it [[conveys]] possession by an evil spirit.
But where is the consistency?
If drinking anything at all is okay, then smoking anything at all should equivalently be okay.
From what I have read in studies and polls and seen on news reports, smoking cigarettes does not lead to severely impaired driving. Smoking cigarettes does not lead to foggy thinking nor slurred speech, [[bad judgment, Smoking cigarettes does not lead to violent crime.
Alcohol leads to a hell of a lot more
I personally have never touched a drug or cigarette, etc. in my life. But I can easily detect the ridiculous inconsistency in the laws regarding any and all kinds of chemical dependencies.
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