You can get smashed on 90 proof legal alcohol

[ginscpy]

so why use illegal drugs??????????????????

 

[del]

a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

 

[waltky]

How much dem sop-heads is really costin' ever'body...

Excessive Alcohol Drinking Has $223B Price Tag
August 15, 2013 — Excessive alcohol drinking costs Americans more than $220 billion a year, or almost $2 a drink. And the biggest costs come from a loss of worker productivity.

A new study used data from 2006 in a complicated analysis of different costs associated with excessive drinking. The researchers looked at results from around the United States and found a lot of variation in different parts of the country, but the numbers add up to a very expensive habit. “The economic cost of excessive drinking was about $223.5 billion in 2006, which works out to be about $1.90 per drink, and over $700 per person,” says Robert Brewer, MD, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a government public health agency.

Those alcohol-related costs include health care, the expense of prosecuting drinking-related crimes, and property damage from road accidents, for example. But Brewer says the biggest expense by far relates to lost productivity. People with a drinking problem tend to have lower-paying jobs, they may be absent more frequently and be less productive when they are at work. “In addition to that, a number of people die of alcohol-attributable conditions,” Brewer explained in a telephone interview. “And many of those folks die in the prime of their life. So there’s the personal tragedy there. But there’s also a huge economic cost to somebody dying, for example, in an alcohol-related motor vehicle crash at age 35 which eliminates several decades of the victim’s working life."

A cashier at Holiday Market, in Royal Oak, Michigan, rings up alcohol purchases

It should be emphasized that this is a study of the costs of excessive alcohol use, not the occasional beer or a glass of wine with dinner. Most of the costs, Brewer says, stem from binge drinking. Although this was a study of the economic impact of heavy drinking in the United States, Brewer says many other countries have problems with what the World Health Organization calls “harmful use of alcohol.” The exact dollar impact may be different. “But I think that it is very reasonable to assume that harmful alcohol use is going to result in some of the same consequences in other countries, even if the costs associated with those consequences are different,” said Robert Brewer.

Brewer's research on the economic costs of excessive alcohol use is published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. If alcohol isn’t your cup of tea, what about coffee? There’s another study just out that finds drinking more than 28 cups of coffee a week may be bad for you, at least if you are under age 55. Researchers at the University of South Carolina and elsewhere charted an increased risk of death from all causes in those younger coffee drinkers. But they found no increased risk of death in older heavy coffee drinkers. The study of more than 43,000 coffee-drinkers and non-drinkers is published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Excessive Alcohol Drinking Has $223B Price Tag

 

[R.C. Christian]

Good god, 90 proof alcohol is a bad way to get high.

 

[Sunshine]

Well, this is an old thread. But I can tell you that many crimes are not about the product, they are about the chase. Some people are addicted to the chase. Legal stuff doesn't give them the chase.

 

[dilloduck]

Well, this is an old thread. But I can tell you that many crimes are not about the product, they are about the chase. Some people are addicted to the chase. Legal stuff doesn't give them the chase.

pot heads are fixin' to find this out.

 

[AquaAthena]

so why use illegal drugs??????????????????

It isn't about getting smashed, it is about getting mellow and feeling an artificial high that all is right with your world and no hangover tomorrow..... It is an escape from reality, and taken in quantities that don't include a 24/7 dependency, or driving under the influence, can be a fun thing. Especially at music concerts, specifically, rock and roll....

No, I don't use it.

 

[Sunshine]

Well, this is an old thread. But I can tell you that many crimes are not about the product, they are about the chase. Some people are addicted to the chase. Legal stuff doesn't give them the chase.

pot heads are fixin' to find this out.

Yes, and when it is legal, they aren't going to want it any longer. They will move up to something that is illegal.

I'm not just referring to drugs either, people get addicted to the chase with about anything, theft, counterfeiting, anything that sets up the game. Reference Ocean's 11, 12, and 13. A fantasy chase because I can assure that George Clooney is not in any prison I worked in. Nor were there any smart felons there. But even among the dumb ones, you had those who HAD to commit their crime for the thrill of it.

There are men who love to chase women, but once they get the one they are after, they are bored and go after someone else. If your man is that kind of man, you have to keep the chase going to keep him!

 

[Montrovant]

It couldn't have anything to do with a completely different high gotten from various drugs, could it?

 

[Moonglow]

I am just wondering what happened to the illegal pussy?

 

[whitehall]

Backward argument that pot heads have used for years. You almost gotta laugh when the old bald headed pony tail nut case pot heads who have lost most of their brain cells consider Kentucky Bourbon to be a threat to the human race.

 

[Moonglow]

It's just bacteria urine.

 

[tinydancer]

Get your shine on....

 

[ScienceRocks]

Why allow 90 proof booze and NOT pot? Personal freedom, remember?

 

[Politico]

Wow a two year old thread. Out of electric car posts?

 

[Sunni Man]

I wonder what ever happened to ginscpy?

He was one very strange and extremely odd fellow.....

 

[Sunshine]

I am just wondering what happened to the illegal pussy?

That's a different drive, there Moonglow.

 

[Missourian]

A little off topic, but why 90 proof?

Whiskey by definition should be no less 80 proof.

Everclear is 190 proof.

Proof is percentage of alcohol times two.

 

[R.C. Christian]

That shit should just be dumped down the drain.