Alcohol

[paulos66]

Causes a bit of bother doesn't it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7208676.stm
if we were to make it illegal should it be class a, b or c drug or should we change it's classification every few months just to confuse people?

[cazzz1975]

maybe they should up the price of cheap booze to cut down on binge drinking?

[.steg.]

well it is more addictive than most "recreational" drugs, kills more people and causes more crime so maybe class A

[Goodsoulette]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5230006 .stm

Should be A, if scientists were behind classifying it. Look at little old ecstasy way down there. Alcohol more dangerous than ketamin.

[ummmm]

It will never be classed as the people who make the rules drink too much of it.

[andy-hughes]

This is a cultural, as well as medical problem.

We endure a society where drinking alcohol to excess is seen as the barmoeter of enjoyment - the bigger dose of alcohol poisoning you can give yourself, the better night out you have had.

The government could act - but won't, because any action on such a deeply engrained cultural ethos will be seriously unpopular.

The way forward is to stop all but specialist retail outlets selling alcohol, with the price quadrupled, and raised every twelve monthS.

The outlets would be rigourously monitored with a stiff prison sentence for buyers and sellers to anyone under the age of twenty-one.

Drinking anywhere outside would be banned - again, prison for offenders.

A serious programme of education to convince children that there are better ways of enjoying themselves than becoming incapable, and giving themselves long-term health problems.

Any chance of any of these?

No.

So we lurch on into the future.

[paulos66]

If, it were classified as an 'a' would you still drink even though you'd be a criminal?

[paulos66]

8ball - it's a hypothetical question - so no idiots here except ........

[China Doll]

Chuckles

(I absolutely have nothing tsensible to say alas).