Alcohol. It's legal, so the people using it feel they are not doing anything wrong. There is also the inability to determine if you have had too much if you have had too much. It is also easily accessible, making it much too easy to consume. At least with drugs, you have to go out of your way to get them.
2006-07-22 15:13:57
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answered by Steve R 3
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Well, alcohol is a drug.
When you say which is worse, drugs or alcohol, that's not a balanced comparison because "drugs" includes so many different types of drugs, while alcohol is just one. If you left it at that, obviously the drugs catagory is worse than the alcohol catagory, but if you did one to one comparisions between the drug alcohol and each other drug, I'd say that it would be worse than some and better than others.
In the end, the thing which makes many drugs most harmful is the fact that they are illegal, so they must be handled by the drugs dealers, gangs, etc. Many drugs under casual non-drug-addict circumstances are no more harmful to the person than alcohol.
I personally am against drugs, but I think that each person should have the choice as to what they want to do to their own body. Legalize them and tax the hell out of them.
2006-07-22 15:22:38
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answered by creative 3
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if they're evil or not evil depends on the reason why you're taking them. if you take any intoxicant to enhance your experience of reality, it'll enrich your life. if you take it to escape from reality it'll ruin your life. that applies for anything, drugs, alcohol, sheep-shagging, whatever you do to cope with life better. also, you can't look at all drugs the same way. weed works differently from lsd which works differently from opiates etc. some make you feel good, some make you see things, some pick you up, some calm you down, some close you to reality, some open you up, some are addictive, some aren't and so on and so forth. so really, the question is a little beside the point.
2006-07-22 15:35:03
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answered by nerdyhermione 4
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on an individual basis drugs tend to be much worse, but on a society level alcohol is much worse. I work in the emegency room at weekends and at least 70% of my workload is alcohol related. The thing about alcohol is it is very insidious, it sneaks up on you and then one day ten years down the track you discover you have liver problems or some other alcohol related problem.
2006-07-22 19:46:03
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answered by Bryn H 2
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Alcohol.
Alcohol is never prescribed to help cure or treat anybody for anything.
Drugs on the other hand are and therefore they are cool. It's the misuse of drugs that makes 'drugs' a dirty word.
2006-07-22 15:15:02
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answered by Bajan Deane 3
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Alcohol IS a drug, but I see where you're coming from. Alcohol can ruin lives, but not to the same extent as hard drugs do.
2006-07-22 15:13:16
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answered by Burnsie 4
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I would say that if alcohol had not been part of society for so long and it was just invented it would be classed as a hard drug(class a)
2006-07-22 15:25:52
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answered by chopps . 3
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I completely agree with claytonc22.
When discussing drugs many people forget that Alcohol is a drug, as is nicotine - which, like alcohol is considerably worse than weed.
People die everyday from overdoses of numerous drugs - however, nobody has ever died from a weed overdose (http://www.ukcia.org/culture/effects/myths.php#overdose) whereas overdoses from most other drugs are commonplace (eg alcohol poisoning)
2006-07-22 15:20:46
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answered by Lisa 3
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They are both just as evil. You should never do drugs and if your gonna drink make sure your either at home where you do not have to drive or that you have a designated driver.
2006-07-22 15:12:34
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answered by allurfantasies2000 2
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Alcohol kills brain cells immediately. Dugs kill people over a long period of time (except for overdoses which are quicker) So both are pretty lethal - that's why I don't take either.
By the way Mark_D looks like Martin out of Eastenders.
2006-07-22 15:45:07
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answered by Aslan, reborn 4
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