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Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by GDC7 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:04AM (#29318600)
You have it the other way around.

Alcohol is legal because people love to be inebiated more than they like being stoned or on a paranoid coke binge, or nodding off due to heroin

Majority rules , and so the preference with regards to the feeling of being inebriated + collective risk tolerance of society + the variability of alcoholic beverages + the low cost of the substance made it so that alcohol emerged .

Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by engineeringwoke on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:30AM (#29318930)
No, it's because primates have been eating rotten fruit for tens of thousands of years to get high, and primates can't run a chemistry lab.