Well simply for a fact that tobacco gives governments a hefty amount of taxes during all the phases it is going from tobacco fields to users mouth. Biggest taxes pays the end user often depending the place you are living. Same applies to alcohol.
Also tobacco does not give you a high. As for alcohol it is still legal while giving you a high is simply for a fact that people in charge use it in very moderate amounts or if at all, they cannot accept the fact that it makes other people high and even addicted as they would make themselves on the same level as those who do get high and if you know a little bit about psychology ones mind wont simply do that.
Regarding to a alcohol in here where it is normal for people to drink alcohol equaling nearly a one litre once or twice a week they simply cannot ban the alcohol as it would just lead in people doing their own or smuggling it. And the banning has already been tried in the early last century. Instead they tax the alcohol so much all the things it causes to society can be paid with that money (or use it for the something else actually).
I guess that in some amount of time all the drugs will be legalized and taxed upon the harm level. But that needs some education and change of the generation of politics and also younger people attending to politics in general and also the fact that drug addicts should take part in voting.
I noticed a press release from police which says that new drug has been introduced to the streets and that it is very dangerous and have already caused 3 young people to die because an overdose. The drug they were so concerned were synthetic cannabinoids.
So generally a big lol for them giving shit like that in public. They are generally years late with that and wonder when those bath salts come into notice of police. Maybe around 2020 or something like that. But that statement of 3 young person dying because of overdose of synthetic cannabinoids got me thinking maybe they are just simply lying or twisting the truth. So I checked up on the overdose database we have here and with a little searching I find these three cases they were referring and indeed those persons had used synthetic cannabinoids before dying but all of them had consumed that much alcohol that it was determined by Dr to be a key factor of leading in to death by insuffocation because they had vomited while passed out and breathed their own vomit.
So I checked out the name in the press release and figured out where he does work, called on the that station and asked them to put me through that person. He answered the phone and I asked him about the press release and admitted that he has no medical background or that he have not contacted anyone with that knowledge when doing that particular press release and have just figured out that because they have done something relating to drugs before dying it must have caused it because drugs do cause overdoses for the most of the users
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