Anyone who opposes the legalization of drugs (especially weed, but lots of others) but drinks/thinks alcohol should remain legal is just an absolute hypocrite.

Yup. 100%. If you are pro alcohol but anti weed you are either willfully ignorant or a hypocrite. I've partaken in both heavily in the past and now partake in neither but if I was going to casually pick one up again for social reasons weed would have a far lessor impact negatively on my life.

There were laws, a constitutional amendment in fact, against alcohol. Civil disobedience did away with that. As seems to be the case with legalizing drugs, where mass incarcerations are doing away with those laws.

Gorbachev had an anti alcohol campaign in Russia as well. While it had an impact in reducing male mortality and violent crime, it had some ill effects as well. Destroying vineyardsn in tge Caucaz and Moldova was kind of overdoing it.

http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/anti-alcohol-campaign/

I really like thevRussian humor part. They nicknamed Gorbachev mineral’nyi sekretar’, mineral-water-drinking secretary and the campaign was known as the dry law.