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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by Scoundreller on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:02AM (#20644652)
Isn’t that Oktoberfest?
Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by hansjorg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:34AM (#20644958)
Alcohol's not a drug, it's a drink.
Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by smcl on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:57AM (#20645151)
I'm far from a puritan - I thoroughly enjoy my beer (and rum, and slivovice ...etc) - but let's be honest, the addictive properties of alcohol together with the societal, social and physical damage that it can cause either match or exceed substances which are otherwise treated as "drugs".

This is not to say I think alcohol should be banned or more strongly controlled, but rather that we should really rethink how we harshly we view things like cannabis

Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by cocoggu on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:51AM (#20645106)
You can dissolve MDMA in water, making it a drink.

LSD is often liquid before being deposited on a stamp.

Molecules are what matters, not the structure or state, and alcohol (like tobacco) is effectively a drug.

Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by mtarnovan on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:33AM (#20645468)
Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by EForEndeavour on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:05AM (#20645211)
Ethanol is literally a psychoactive recreational drug.
Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by MrsPeaches on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:37PM (#20646047)
For those of you who may not know the reference it’s from Chris Morris’s Brass Eye

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAJemmO-bg