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Originally Posted by niky
Alcohol is tres dangerous. It's just too easy to make and too difficult to regulate.
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People - the majority of humanity - have been drinking alcoholic drinks for basically all of history. Wine dates back at least 6000 years -
Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave - beer about the same -
Concise Timetable of Beer History. - and the oldest there's evidence for, a sort of mead, around 9000:
http://www.history.com/news/ask-hist...-invented-beer The world hasn't ended yet.
The ease of manufacture and difficulty of regulation are positives. See for instance the US insane Prohibition experiment.