Alcohol is involved in a very large number of deaths in the US every year. A very large proportion of suicides, automobile deaths, shooting deaths, diabetes deaths, and so on are directly caused by alcohol consumption.
It's not like we need more people running around with impaired decision making ability.
Re:In praise of cash
by eternalban on Saturday March 04, 2017 @11:54AM
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Because they have different psychological effects. One makes you think, the other makes you stupid.
So yes, for this any many other reasons, it's good to keep secrets from the government.
By the way, pot is just an example, you can literally dig millions of unjust laws up if you looked, we're all just conditioned to OBEY.