Sen. Cory Booker urged fellow lawmakers to "follow the lead of states around the country and legalize cannabis for adult use and create a comprehensive taxation and regulatory scheme."
To what end? If we make alcohol more difficult to acquire, we are encouraging illegal markets as has been demonstrated. Making any drug illegal doesn’t work.
Alcohol and tobacco are specifically not scheduled. They don’t even fall under the same regulatory agency. They get their own special one with firearms of all things.
Most drugs on the schedule are not illegal, just controlled. In fact, we already do control alcohol with things like age limitations. Due to the destructive nature of the drug, is it so incredible to control it further?
Distillation doesn’t create alcohol, it concentrates alcohol. Fermentation creates alcohol and the hardest part about fermentation is waiting for it to finish.
Yes, prohibitions of addictive substances creates dangerous black markets and criminals out of addicts who usually need medical support not a judge or jail. We try to prevent children from driving, drinking, smoking, etc for the same reason we don’t send children to jail & that’s not a good way to legislate adult or general populations.
Now imagine if cannabis seeds were floating through the air all the time, and also used to produce a staple food, and you’ll see how alcohol is even harder to regulate.
IMO they should move alcohol up on the schedule
I haven’t looked it up, but isn’t it a poison with no known medical use? That’s schedule 1. Right next to heroin.
Technically a treatment for methanol or ethylene glycol poisoning! Though we have a better one now. But yes the schedule system is a joke.
And if rescheduled ironically when someone makes moonshine wrong and poisons themselves, a doctor could prescribe liquor to solve it.
It’s a really good topical antiseptic.
It’s also great at clearing out your stomach if you drink enough.
And it’s good for anesthesia
I’m not sure beer and wine would fit this description. It would seem, at lower concentrations, there is no medical use.
You could say that about literally any medication…
To what end? If we make alcohol more difficult to acquire, we are encouraging illegal markets as has been demonstrated. Making any drug illegal doesn’t work.
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Alcohol and tobacco are specifically not scheduled. They don’t even fall under the same regulatory agency. They get their own special one with firearms of all things.
The problem is alcohol is way, way too easy to make for making it illegal to be feasible.
Most drugs on the schedule are not illegal, just controlled. In fact, we already do control alcohol with things like age limitations. Due to the destructive nature of the drug, is it so incredible to control it further?
Most drugs on the schedule are also a lot harder to make than alcohol.
The distillation of alcohol is no easier than making opium. But, I don’t see the relevance
Distillation doesn’t create alcohol, it concentrates alcohol. Fermentation creates alcohol and the hardest part about fermentation is waiting for it to finish.
I haven’t accidentally made opium, but I have accidentally made alcohol by leaving a half-full soda bottle under my bed.
Did you drink it?
I had a sip. It tasted awful, but I’m sure if I tried to make it I’d end up with something that would get me fucked up
Or blind … maybe both
Yes, prohibitions of addictive substances creates dangerous black markets and criminals out of addicts who usually need medical support not a judge or jail. We try to prevent children from driving, drinking, smoking, etc for the same reason we don’t send children to jail & that’s not a good way to legislate adult or general populations.
So was cannabis lmao
Now imagine if cannabis seeds were floating through the air all the time, and also used to produce a staple food, and you’ll see how alcohol is even harder to regulate.
Cannabis plants are incredibly weedy and used to create hemp … they’re both difficult and not worth trying to make illegal.