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So alcohol should be made illegal?

The problem with making alcohol illegal is that it is so easy to produce it at home, with generally available ingredients like sugar or yeast. That's why prohibition did not work. Banning drugs, especially synthetic ones is orders of magnitude more effective.

The problem is that now a days a chemist can simply attach an inert molecular group to a banned chemical and viola it's no longer illegal but still the same drug. There are tons of LSD analogues like 1-acetyl-LSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALD-52

Additionally:

O-Acetylpsilocin (4-AcO-DMT)

AL-LAD (6-allyl-6-nor-lysergic acid diethylamide)

ETH-LAD (6-ethyl-6-nor-lysergic acid diethylamide)

PRO-LAD (6-propyl-6-nor-lysergic acid diethylamide)

1P-LSD (1-propionyl-lysergic acid diethylamide)

Cannabis and psilocybic mushrooms literally grow wild, ready to consume.

Well, we could try that, it would be a noble experiment wouldn't it?

Have you heard of prohibition? Been there don’t be that. Didn’t work.

http://nebraskastudies.org/1900-1924/prohibition-of-alcohol/...

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