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Why Do People Think Getting High & Getting Drunk Are So Different?

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Why Do People Think Getting High & Getting Drunk Are So Different?

I've done both and I don't see a huge difference (unless comparing getting drunk to doing real hard drugs). Some people I know drink quite often, but codemn getting high even if you are doing it safely. Basically my question is why do people accept getting drunk, but are against safely getting high?
 
Because that is just the way society is, unfortunately. I don't think there's more to it. :p
 
Hopefully as marijuana (and hopefully some psychedelics) becomes legal, people will socially accept safe reccreational drug use
 
It's because drinking is legal most places and using the type of drugs that get you high is generally illegal. Laws shape people's morality.
 
I think one of the biggest differences is that heavy alcohol use causes severe lack of coordination and amnesia. Heavy drug use can be disorienting and create clumsiness depending on the drug (especially soma) and can create blackouts but that's usually with a lack of consciousness. People don't often go a bunch of places, piss themselves, and wake up with a stranger on typical rec drugs.
 
Yeah well hopefully the public mass won't continue being backward on how they view drugs & alcohol for recreational use much longer.
 
Ignorance and social stigma against drug use even though Alcohol would be most certainly in the same category as say Cocaine, Amphetamines and Barbiturates in terms of harm done to the body and brain by the drug. I doubt you could find another drug that would compare to Alcohol in terms of being implicated in violent crime though. Even during the worst years of the major spike in the use of Coke/Crack here when it seemed like everyone and their mom was smoking Crack or shooting Coke it never came anywhere near Alcohol in being implicated in Assaults, Manslaughter, sex offences and basically every other violent crime you could think of.
 
I don't get it either ...I mean looking at all drugs objectively, alcohol is one of the worst by far. sure it may not be AS easy to form a physical dependence on booze as say, heroin, but to make up for that alcohol fucks up your mental function and physical health WAY more than most other drugs.
 
^ Well yes, cannabis vs alcohol shouldn't even be a debate anymore. The line begins to blur when other drugs are involved.



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Another big thing is the perception that people that drink usually just do it at nights, weekends, parties, etc. Where as if you say you smoke pot any amount are assumed to be high 24\7 all day.

If you told people you drink beer all day they would probably look at you as even worse than a pot smoker. I doubt they would say "well he's drunk all the time but alcohol is okay."

So because alcohol has a socially acceptable regulated time for it to be consumed and cannabis is just kinda smoked all the time whenever if that makes any sense.
 
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Well most people that drink, don't prostitute themselves, steal from family, or rob mother fucker's, ect. for a drink. Now heroin on the other hand...



- Hopeless 7nos
 
My bf drinks a lot every Saturday night. He can drink 80 units of alcohol in one night. Yet he's totally against all drugs, even prescribed by his own doctor.

Yet I rarely rarely drink, if at all, so I've never been drunk. So I couldn't really say the difference, but watching my bf vomiting and everything is a complete put off. With me getting high, I just sit back and enjoy the nod n
 
For me drinking typically leads to depression and negativity, so I quit drinking. As where getting high boost my mental state and makes me a lot more positive and better to be around.
 
7nos-SS373dOH said:
Well most people that drink, don't prostitute themselves, steal from family, or rob mother fucker's, ect. for a drink. Now heroin on the other hand...



- Hopeless 7nos
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Only because Alcohol is cheap compared to Heroin. As someone who's been through both Alcohol withdrawal and withdrawal from various strong Opiates i can say coming off Alcohol is many times worse. Also in dry towns it's not unusual to see people paying enormous mark up's for liquor (if a bottle of booze costs say 20 something in a place where it's legal $200+ is not a unusual figure) and basically end up doing without everything else for that good ol drunken time. We see Alcoholics resorting to drinking non beverage forms of Alcohol such as mouthwash, after shave and even floor cleaner when they are cut off. Prohibition was a good example of how far people would go for a drink once it was made illegal and you had the rise of various criminal organizations during this period who came to be because of the enormous profits from bootleg alcohol. It shaped the landscape of the criminal world in America right into the 21st century

So obviously legality plays a important role here.
 
Atmozfears said:
Because that is just the way society is, unfortunately. I don't think there's more to it. :p
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Pretty much this. ^ Alcohol is widely socially acceptable, the government makes money off it, and it generally doesn't carry the stigma drugs do unless you're camped out at a park drinking tall cans of Steel Reserve every day at 10 am.
 
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