Feel like more of society is focused around alcohol, especially historically. We have accounts from ancient Egypt about brewing beer being an acceptable reason to miss work. Hell one of the main reasons Islam is less popular than it should be is the total proscription of alcohol. Cannabis doesnt really seem like it was ever too strong to be commercialized early on in human development, and even then coffee, tobacco, and tea all made major inroads to at least western society in the renaissance, with cannabis still being a central asian commodity. Alcohol on the other hand occurs almost inevitably and is a useful way to store calories and water.
There’s the hypothesis some of the first cities built by humans and the spread of agriculture was due to alcohol production. Alcohol brewing is older than writing. And we’ve known about its harmful effects for thousands of years to the point Roman Senators under Ceasar would accuse each other of being alcoholics as political slander.
Everything else is new by comparison. And our knowledge of what these drugs do is much more limited. Reefer Madness is still what a lot of people believe about marijuana, for example.
Alcohol is way worse than weed
It is, I’m an alcoholic in recovery and it almost killed me. I binge drink for the better part of like 6 years, it’s miserable.
Same here. Stay strong.
I’ve worked in Hospitality since being a teenager, I’m 40 now.
The obligatory pint after shift and getting bought drinks for so long as definitely made me a functional alkie.
Stay strong my dude. I can’t shake the monkey off my back
I wonder why it is way more socially acceptable. I feel like it’s more complicated than just the racism part
You can’t grow liquor with a grow lamp in the comfort of your own home tax-free
You kinda can though. I’ve made homemade apple wine before, and distilling from that is easy enough.
Decades of anti drug propaganda. Smoke is stinky. Illegal until very recently. Drinking has a lot more marketing money behind it
Also weed is not legal federally and employers are still allowed to discriminate against you for using it.
Feel like more of society is focused around alcohol, especially historically. We have accounts from ancient Egypt about brewing beer being an acceptable reason to miss work. Hell one of the main reasons Islam is less popular than it should be is the total proscription of alcohol. Cannabis doesnt really seem like it was ever too strong to be commercialized early on in human development, and even then coffee, tobacco, and tea all made major inroads to at least western society in the renaissance, with cannabis still being a central asian commodity. Alcohol on the other hand occurs almost inevitably and is a useful way to store calories and water.
There’s the hypothesis some of the first cities built by humans and the spread of agriculture was due to alcohol production. Alcohol brewing is older than writing. And we’ve known about its harmful effects for thousands of years to the point Roman Senators under Ceasar would accuse each other of being alcoholics as political slander.
Everything else is new by comparison. And our knowledge of what these drugs do is much more limited. Reefer Madness is still what a lot of people believe about marijuana, for example.