Showing ID & signing in to buy OTC cold medicines?

[Occhidiangela]

According to statisctics, the highest percentage of drug related deaths comes straight from alcohol. The highest percentage of drug related crime comes straight from alcohol. What's more, the highest amount of drug related medical issues comes from alcohol (followed closely by tobacco).

I'd say alcohol is the worst there is, apparently. Forget the other crap.
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Hi. Nice try. Have you done your research on what percentage of the population uses the legal substance, alcohol, versus the illegal substances that are narcotics? We as a society condone the pollution of our bloodstream and death of our braincellswith beer, wine and spirits. It one of the things we do. Wallow in it. We even have an agency for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. All you need to add is cars (DoT) and we could rename it the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Agency. :P

Until you present your alleged statistics in light of user populations, all I can say to your post is "what a load of bollocks."

More people die from car wrecks than firearms incidents. So what?

Does that mean that I need to start treating gasoline like ammunition, and requiring an ID to buy it? Hmmm, there is an idea . . . but maybe what we really need is a background check on every rube who wants to drive a car. Even the illegals who cut the mayor's lawn. "Cars don't kill people, idiots behind the wheel kill people!"

People have been drinking since, last I checked, some 4-5000 BC (evidence of wine jars in Central asia dated to back then) and have been using interesting plants, and their by products, since I suppose at least that long.

"Hey, Ghengis, if you eat those mushrooms the ponies look like elephants!"
Ghengis munches down a few 'shrooms. Funny things begin to happen to his visual acuity.
"Wow, I see it too. Now, go kill everyone who looks like a yak." :blink:

Occhi