>Ditto cannabis and opium poppies for example, arguably a million times more naturally manifesting than a distillation process.
Yes, but historically, alcoholic societies thrived and developed much better than stoner societies.
Yes, but historically, alcoholic societies thrived and developed much better than stoner societies.
There's a liquor store in every strip mall, every restaurant servers liquor, every concert or sporting event serves liquor.
Meanwhile other drugs are heavily regulated if not outright illegal in most places still
The societies that drank liquor clearly dominated for this to be the case.
Wasn't LSD banned in the US because it got super popular and became a great "poster child" for the war on drugs? Not because it was not popular enough.
AFAIK caffeine, nicotine and alcohol are legal at this point mainly because they've been normalized. As in, people generally perceive them to have minimal risk, so there's not a lot of opposition.
Yes the risk is not actually minimal for any of those three. Even caffeine can be dependence-forming. But most people either don't know this or don't care.
You didnt think this through, Europe was a mongol raided, plague infested, dark-age shitshow untill they discovered tea and coffee. Id we are gonna go by 'drugs drive history' then caffeine is a top tier drug, and alcohol is crap.
But this has all the historifal rigour of "white people won, therefore everything white people do is the best'