What is the most dangerous drug? [Spoiler: it's alcohol!]

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

let's legalize them all then cuz alcohol is mostly harmless, been used for thousands of years

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

alcohol is mostly harmless

Tell that to all the people whose livers failed. Tell that to all the people who died from alcohol-induced cancer. Tell that to all the people who killed themselves drunk driving. Tell that to all the people ran over by drunk drivers. Tell that to all the people murdered by drunkards.

Oh, yeah, you can't — cause they're all dead. Ninety-five thousand; that's how many people die in the US each year cause people like you care more about getting drunk than human lives.

been used for thousands of years

Murder has happened for thousands of years, so should we legalize that?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

did they die at like 75 or something, that's fine

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

30,000 to 100,0000 years apparently.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

And how many people died from alcohol over those 30-100k years? In the US alone: 95k die every year.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

If 95k people need to die so I can have a beer, so be it.

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Libertarians...