Alcohol should be banned in the UK

Tell me one thing that there are no issues with? If we're talking about dangers to society, there's so much to ban before we even get started with alcohol.

9 million people are not drinking responsibly.

I don't want to get rid of alcohol because I'm some sort of Oliver Cromwell who hates fun, I want it because alcohol is a dangerous drug. Adults can't help the fact when they get addicted, but when they do - it tampers with their entire life, and the people around them. Why are you trying to find fault with that?

The Government should also ban fast-food places, nationalize biscuit/sweets/chocolate companies and have a total ban on sugar to reduce the obesity epidemic that is ravaging the UK.

But the Government is putty in the hands of the "food and drinks lobby".


If you want to get anything decriminalized and legalized, all you have to do is to have a shitload of money and send out people to lobby ministers on your behalf.

The Government no longer works in the interests of people, just big corporations.

you're trying to imply that adult citizens are basically children who can't regulate their own lives for better or worse. it's none of your business. people should be free to choose which path in life they want and they should be free to either succeed or fail.

that's exactly* what you're seeming like, though. you're trying to imply that adult citizens are basically children who can't regulate their own lives for better or worse. it's none of your business. people should be free to choose which path in life they want and they should be free to either succeed or fail. if people fail, they ought to learn lessons. it's relatively simple. I mean, everybody learns lessons from former problems. for instance: I've almost died before from alcohol. I've been overweight before. I've done badly in school before (not anymore). it's a matter of free will. if you drink irresponsibly and rely on it, then you might get addicted and it doesn't take a genius to realise that. ultimately, if you're saying that it's the government choice whether a person can drink or not, and that their output is a matter of public interest, you're basically suggesting that people's lives belong to the state, which is a really creepy idea.

How would banning alcohol stop them rather than just pushing them to drink moonshine?



What other "dangerous" activities would you like to see banned? Horse riding maybe?

That is true - if you read my previous replies to that guy I've been talking to, you'll see in this sort of reality, I couldn't. People are wayy too dependant on it, there'd be some sort of war on the streets if it was taken away from them. But in MY ideal world, it would be. I feel if people never knew what alcohol was, it'd never bother them. Though, if you cut loads of people off from it, they'd all be going onto Amazon and buying their own 'make-your-own-wine' kits (lmao) and solve pretty much nothing.

And yes! Horse riding could be added to my 'I hate everything fun' list - maybe Christmas and chocolate too. Am I evil yet?

The Conservatives have made illegal a huge amount of drugs, some potentially safe and useful, in a single blanket ban. This is supposedly due to the cost to society of these drugs.

Why are we banning drugs that kill less than a hundred people a year between them for their cost to society? Surely we should be banning alcohol, which caused over 6000 deaths in 2012 and costs the NHS £3.5 BILLION a year.

I really can't fathom how the cost to society can be used to justify banning drugs when it's a normal occurrence for people to binge drink every week.

Why do you keep arguing with me about my opinion? Everyone has one, you can believe what you want and I can believe what I want. I don't mind people having a drink now and again, hell, it's normal. But so many people drink every night, and are practically drinking themselves into health problems, or even death. Tell me, if your mum or someone you heavily care about was slowly killing themselves without realising it - would you try and stop them? Or just let them do what they want because you'd be taking away their 'freedom' and 'responsibility.' I understand where you're coming from, I really do - but I still believe that there should be a lot of restrictions on alcohol, people ignore what they're doing. This isn't even just with alcohol, there's loads of other things too - but since this thread's about alcohol that's what I'm focusing on.

if people want to die as a result of substance misuse then thats just natural selection at work.