• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    the only reason alcohol isn’t banned is because it is trivial to make

    nutrients humans need + certain life forms that rot things

    not able to be restricted

    if banned, people would make their own crappy alcohol which would likely be more harmful

    (I don’t support drug bans, war on drugs did not work, the government should just make getting rid of addiction easy by providing proper healthcare (Portugal does this I’ve heard))

    • tomi000@lemmy.world
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      20 minutes ago

      Many naturally occurring drugs are as easy or easier to make, weed (dry + burn), coca (literally just chew the leaves), shrooms (grow + dry). But the argument holds for those as well. People literally produce their own (or buy from someone else who produced it illegally) stuff which might be contaminated, just because the government wont make it legally available.

    • zerobot@lemmy.wtf
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      2 hours ago

      i mean meth is pretty trivial to make, dmt is trivial to make, not to speak about mushrooms, weed, etc, maybe that’s why they are still around actually haha, not saying you are wrong but there is more to it, probably

      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        I can buy everything I need to make alcohol in the baking aisle at any supermarket. It won’t be very good, but it would be booze.