3. No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says

No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says

I would not support any prohibition either. Harm reduction strategies I would support, if efficacious. In my country (Australia) we have some of the harshest alcohol and tobacco taxes in the world, not to mention plain packaging for cigarettes. The consensus (with some disagreement) is that this has reduced the impact of these drugs on the health of our population. In order to make a rational decision about drugs, people need to have good quality scientific evidence to assess their level of risk. Then they can decide what level of risk they're willing to take on. This is obviously very difficult to determine or provide, and I think governments and medical practitioners do a fine job generally. The caveat is that alcohol and other drugs are inherently addictive, which means they disrupt your ability to make rational decisions when it comes to consuming them. It's fine to say people should be able to decide, but what actually goes into that decision? A lot of it comes down to alcohol's reinforcing effects, as a direct result of it's pharmacological activity on the brain's reward circuitry. Are you really free to choose, if you're unable to resist alcohol? No decision is perfectly rational, especially not with drugs.

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