>>>>BTW, in my faith, use of both alcohol and drugs are strictly forbidden.
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>>>Alcohol is a drug. There's no way around that.
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>>I agree 100% on this point; I didn't express myself correctly here. It should say "alcohol and other drugs".
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>>Hilmar.
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>Alcohol is a drug, but is often distinguished from other drugs because of its original use in making water safe to consume, in those regions where boiling water to make it safe (and adding leaves, herbs or roasted beans for taste - also drugs) had not been discovered.
I think another point is more important here: the widespread use of alcohol. This makes it difficult, for many people, to admit that alcohol has the same status as other substances they consider bad. Also, it makes it difficult to outlaw alcohol (for drinking purposes; I know that both alcohol and other drugs have other uses, too).
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
