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They're very expensive drugs so it would be one lobby against another. However given that they're so expensive, I would think that broke, uneducated alcoholics just won't have access to them, so those profits are safe...

Reduced healthcare, policing, and other costs that are paid for with tax dollars from lower alcohol consumption would almost certainly be a net gain over the piddly tax revenue from alcohol consumption sales.

So you're saying it's also going to harm the revenues of the health care industrial complex and the police state? That's not going to help its case.

I think you over estimate the liqour lobby and underestimate how much of alcohol profits likely come from luxury purchases