Did you know of anyone who sent their life down the toilet due to coffee?
At the same time how many people you think are dying every day from diabetes, obesity and lung cancer?
Not to mention all people who ruined their lifes because of alcoholism, marijuana etc.
What other “nuances” do you need?
Thank you for making my point for me.
Are we talking about criminalizing alcohol? Should we be?
If the line is clear, please draw it. Show me which on this list what you would criminalize, which you would ban (but not criminalize), which you would regulate, and which you would allow completely unregulated.
I might actually agree with your list entirely!
But most people that call things "drugs" without nuance also include marijuana without any nuance. And either don't include alcohol for cultural/subjective reasons or DO include it, without consequence to the reality of prohibition.
Higher the severity of the drug -> the more controlled and frowned upon it should be.
And more importantly it should be a widespread common knowledge in society that there are no harmless drugs. There are always tradeoffs (even with coffee).
And all addictive or destructive drugs should be banned except some narrow exceptions for specific reasons (like psychodelics reasearch in psychaitry etc.).
How exactly it is implemented - depends on the specific context. No universal solutions.
For example in the middle east gashish and weed were historically much more common than alcohol, so it doesn't make sense (and will not work anyway) to impose severe punishment for it there.
While it would definitely benefit western/northern countries to prevent spreading of it and instead allowing alcohol for adults etc.