The Guardian: Alcohol more harmful than heroin or crack

The issue of drugs is a subject that has not stopped discuss, owing to the controversies that involve take a approach more conservative or more liberal.

This week, “The Guardian” published a new about Alcohol, as a drug more harmful than heroin or crack, information that was published by the respected Lancet medical journal, and it put in problems to government of United Kingdom, because this sacked to David Nutt (drug adviser and author of published) the last year, for challenge ministers refusal to take the advice of the official Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which he chaired.

The Nutt’s paper is a challenge for the government in the subject of regulation of legal and illegal drugs. Logical says that should restrict the drug more harmful, but, the political say that have to satisfy the people, and politicians get more votes. What happened if the alcohol was banned such as crack? This is politically viable? I don’t think so. Wherefore the government of UK preferred sacked to Nutt before restrict the consumption of alcohol. In addition, the cases of prohibition as “Law Dry” in the United States of America hasn’t been successful, the people anyway consumed alcohol in black marked.

Also, let's not forget that large economic groups feed on income of the consumption of the legal drug. They would agree that their products are legal, because they can exist. Instead the producers of illegal drugs have to be hidden of the state.