The history of alcohol: From the crack cocaine of its day to craft gin

Here is a anti-sugar post presenting the idea that 2 slices of bread has a HUGE impact on the body similar to soda. http://www.vanadia.com/stopbeingsweet/comments/soda-wheat-br...

I am not trolling, but I am suggesting that governments do cause part of the problem by alcohol being legal while other drugs are illegal.

Further I do suspect that there's a fair amount of misery that the government does cause (irrespective of if you think it's morally right or not) and that one way people alleviate their misery is to drink. I'm not suggesting that it's an effective strategy, but merely that it is one that people choose. If governments looked at policies not just from a "how can we make people do what we want" perspective but also from a "how can we make compliance simple and straightforward" perspective they could quite literally move the needle on misery.

It's not that any one particular thing that a human being has to do to stay alive and legal is an impossible burden, it's just that there's no "department of if this is reasonable" and "the total cost of compliance on society department" or "how many hours a year does a person have to spend on forms bureau" and so you end up with a death-by-a-thousand-papercuts kind of situation.

Going to the DMV is irritating but tolerable, so is registering your car, so is paying your taxes, so are X, Y and Z. But by the time you add it all up you're probably working an extra week or two every year unpaid, and you don't get time off from work to make it happen during the government's business hours which decidedly aren't before 9am nor after 5pm.

Because the choice of what government you "patronize" has very high switching costs and the barriers to entry are insurmountably high (except for the most dedicated of revolutionaries) we get very little choice and a lot of things that could be better -- if only someone somewhere would bother to care -- don't happen because there's very little real pressure to improve them. I'm libertarian because I think governments are shitty and uncaring, not because I'm a true anarchist. I want ways to apply pressure to the government to be responsible and give a shit instead of abusing people just because they can.