It's all about profit and the need of the alcoholic to have their fix. Alcohol manufacture is a huge psychoactive drug industry, the most profitable in the world. More people are addicted to alcohol than any other strong psychoactive drug. They maintain their monopoly and will not allow other psychoactive drugs to be sold. Nearly every government (except a few Muslim countries) that tried to outlaw alcohol was brought to its knees by the alcohol industry and it’s alcoholics and forced to legalize it again. This is no joke.
The reason alcohol is legal in the US is because the US government could not take the chaos alcohol brought on the country when it was illegal. There are so many alcoholics in the US, some of them even willing to KILL for alcohol. I am not exaggerating. During prohibition there were lots of alcohol related murders. Some people were willing to fight to the death to be able to have their alcohol.
You might think alcohol is some sort of safe drug, but in fact, it controls most of the world. The US tried really hard to ban it but could not keep the ban going. The ban nearly destroyed the US. There are just way too many people who are very seriously addicted to alcohol that such a ban is impossible to keep up. We have alcoholics running our government, alcoholic teachers, alcoholic doctors, alcoholic police, alcoholic religious leaders, they are all over the place. Some are silent alcoholics who don’t look drunk because they’ve been drinking seriously everyday for many years and are so dependant on it that they need it to be straight and will very seriously freak out with delirium tremens if they stop drinking.
Someone freaked out from delirium tremens is VERY DANGEROUS. They get so freaked out that they can’t control themselves when they don’t have a drink. They literally go bonkers without a drink. They are so badly hooked that the withdrawal itself makes them temporarily insane and can actually kill them. I am not exaggerating here. This is a fact.
Alcohol is a horrible drug. We cannot shake it if we wanted to. It holds the US hostage.
I do not drink. I hate the stuff. I hate its vial putrid taste. I hate the effect it has on people. I think the world would be a much better place if we didn’t have alcohol. However, I don't believe in banning it.