What are your thoughts on alcohol regulation and prohibition

Prohibition was a perfect tool to kill the ethanol engine.
 
It's bullshit that you can be sent into combat at 18 but you can't have a beer, or even a cigarette now.

Fucking worthless politicians, turn the world into a shithole and then remove our ability to cope with said shithole.
 
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In an ideal world, alcohol and tobacco will be classed as drugs they are and outright banned for leisurely consumption.

But both alcohol and tobacco are big treasury revenue avenues and it's been this way since the Middle Ages, so it will never happen.
 
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I think it's a more complicated subject than most give it credit for. If anyone's looking for a single set of rules to solve all of the problems linked to it, it's a no-win situation.

What I do know for sure is just the obvious; that prohibition was a mistake and 21 to drink but 18 to die for Israel and 15 to drive a multi-ton death juggernaut is madness.
 
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I don't drink, stopped decades ago. Alcohol has taken a terrible toll on my family overall.

However, don't see where further regulation does any good. Drinking age should be 18, or 17 for active-duty military. Old enough to fight for your country, old enough to have a drink.

People will never stop looking for means to help relax - tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, hard drugs, etc. Maybe we should look at ways to ease people's lives so there's less of a perceived need to use/abuse substances to relax/escape their unhappiness. Fix the problem, not the symptoms. Nah, that makes just too much fucking sense.
 
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Everything should be legal at 18. We don't need 20 year old babies without the ability to make decisions at this point, especially in a world with as much bullshit as it has currently and coddled zoomers too lazy to even go to work. Hell, it should actualy be 17 or 16, but at least 18 should be a cut off point for sure where you're told you're an adult and can fuck up or not. I don't really understand how telling people above the age of majority they can't do something like drink a beer is even constitutional.
 
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It would be better if nobody drank because overall it's not very good for you and causes health and productivity issues in those who drink considerably but aren't considered alcoholics. Actual alcoholics are a special case that don't matter for the benefits of the argument in my opinion: if they weren't addicted to alcohol, they'd likely be addicted to something else. If I could remove it from the world by pressing a button I would, even though I like a glass of wine or two myself.

However, prohibition doesn't work: people want what they want so they'll find a way to get it. Only, this time it's an unregulated product so can cause health issues in the population, and their money goes to the pockets of gangsters who won't pay tax with the exception of what they end up laundering.

This is also my argument for legalising cannabis and other kinds of drug.
 
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Age of consumption of controlled substances and sexual intercourse should be 25. Romeo & Juliet laws would still exist
 
It's not rocket science.

Alcohol is a poison with cultural, historical, and social values.

The issue isn't drinking it, it's drinking too much or for the wrong reasons.

Why? Because we've allowed responsibility to die as a concept and be replaced with self induced pits of degeneracy.
 
It should be illegal to sell, or proffer as part of a commercial transaction, but really that's not practical.

I'd settle for a ban on advertising. Same goes for tabacco, pharmaceuticals and gambling
 
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I think it's a more complicated subject than most give it credit for. If anyone's looking for a single set of rules to solve all of the problems linked to it, it's a no-win situation.

What I do know for sure is just the obvious; that prohibition was a mistake and 21 to drink but 18 to die for Israel and 15 to drive a multi-ton death juggernaut is madness.
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MADDness, actually.
 
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It should be illegal to sell, or proffer as part of a commercial transaction, but really that's not practical.

I'd settle for a ban on advertising. Same goes for tabacco, pharmaceuticals and gambling
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Baccy advertising has been illegal in the UK for a long time and it does seem to have had an effect on sales and consumption. I'm no fan of banning vices (except on a sunday morning, when I'm all for banning everything until the hangover has worn off), but banning advertising for them doesn't feel like a problem at all. I'd be tempted to extend an advertising ban to sugar-laden cereals and sugary drinks as well.
 
I agree to both but only when fast food like Mc donalds ect, and cheap junkfood is also banned. If you are permitted to eat yourself to death, imo you should also be able to smoke yourself to death.
 
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Baccy advertising has been illegal in the UK for a long time and it does seem to have had an effect on sales and consumption. I'm no fan of banning vices (except on a sunday morning, when I'm all for banning everything until the hangover has worn off), but banning advertising for them doesn't feel like a problem at all. I'd be tempted to extend an advertising ban to sugar-laden cereals and sugary drinks as well.
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Yeah I always thought sugary cereal advertising in particular is pernicious. I wonder what the affect of been on advertising and blank packaging like fag packs would have on it.
 
should all be more regulated
they just turn you into a worthless useless ape
 
So we can have liquor in grocery stores here now. But from what I've seen no one is ever on the aisle in any of the stores I've been to. Do they even sell any of that stuff? You have to buy it at the liquor counter which is always empty or unmanned every time I go in to various stores. I think people are just still going to the state stores like they always did. What a waste of space.
 
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