While We're At It.....

[TaraJo]

...don't know, not really sure how I feel about criminalizing alcohol....there's definitely an argument to be made that it should be, or at least regulated seeing that alcohol is far more deadly than guns and drugs...alcohol related deaths kill more people in the U.S. than all the drugs and guns combined. I don't see the inconsistency here, (guns, alcohol and drugs make a deadly combination), but I do see an inconsistency with gun control advocates screaming about more regulation while completely ignoring the far more deadly alcohol related violence.

We tried it already and it was a monumental failure. The 18th amendment was added to specifically prohibit alcohol in the United States. 14 years later, we passed the 21st amendment which repealed it. That 14 year window gave rise to bootlegging gangsters like Al Capone and were we to criminalize alcohol entirely, it would probably do the same thing again.

But a few years ago, I remember finding an interesting study (I'll have to see if I can look it up; it's been a while). They polled high school and middle school kids and found that most of them had an easier time getting marijuana then the did alcohol. The reason is simple: alcohol is legal and regulated but marijuana is illegal so its entire market is unregulated, even if it is being forced underground.