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i love how everyone wants to regulate this dangerous thing, and its not the alcohol
We tried regulating alcohol and it was an abysmal failure. I doubt there's much motivation to repeat the 1920s.
But we're doing so many other great roaring 20's things. Just look at the meteoric rise of the S&P 500.
Wtf are you talking about? We regulate it right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
Alcohol is very heavily regulated, starting from creation, through transport and conditions of sale, to how, where, and when it is consumed, and what can legally be done after consuming it.
There is a lot of licensing and legal regulation surrounding bars and alcohol-sales businesses. I think you're confusing regulation and prohibition.
sure, but thats no reason to just not try anything. maybe if it were treated as a healthcare problem instead of a policing issue.
of course, that would require the united states to actually care about its human citizens enough to pay for their well-being.
Honestly, the only thing I can think of that could work would be what happened with cigarettes- a combination of significantly rising prices and an alternative to the original addiction (vaping, which is, at least in theory, safer). Some people claim that legal cannabis fills the second goal, but it's a hell of a lot more expensive than cheap beer, at least in Illinois. And good luck convincing beverage outlets into pricing people out of cheap beer.
More tax on bad things. And use the money for good things.
So unlike what happens with every other such tax, like on cannabis or tobacco? Because none of them get spent on good things.
No, exactly like cannabis and tobacco taxes.
So you want the money wasted this time too?
Again, cannabis and tobacco taxes don't end up being spent on what they claim they will be spent on. They go into slush funds and get parceled out on bullshit.
If they did things like help with education and such, I'd agree. But they don't.
Tax money is generally not "wasted". It goes towards services for the state. So, yeah - I would not mind if there were additional taxes placed on fireworks to go into the state's coffers, to come back to me as road work or universities.
You may not call this sort of thing wasting taxpayer dollars, but I sure do.
https://msmagazine.com/2024/04/17/anti-abortion-tax-dollars-tanf-crisis-pregnancy-centers/
That wasn't regulation that was prohibition. Alcohol is currently regulated (21+ or 19 if you're Canadian)
What wonderland do you live in? lol. I want to go to there.
Fireworks used to be heavily regulated in my area, but in recent years, you can basically get anything short of a stick of dynamite from any of the hundreds of pop-up tents that set up in shopping plaza parking lots every June 1.
I don't get a good night's sleep from mid-June through September because of neighborhood kids setting the damn things off every night until 2 - 2:30 AM.
You know at some point I think we have to accept a certain percentage of the population is going to be lost to their own stupidity.
Nothing against this dude or his family. But placing any lit firework or explosive on your head is basically asking for at least a traumatic head injury, if not death.
I've been fucked up on a number of substances both legal and not so legal. I don't think I've ever had an idea I'd be willing to act on while fucked up that's nearly as self destructive as that.
Why not both?
oh, i agree. but the blind eye we turn towards the availability of alcohol which kills untold thousands per year is a little insane. it kills far more than fireworks, and a lot of innocent bystanders at that.
marijuana is a registered drug because of its 'danger', but alcohol is not. it would be comical if it wasnt so sad
Worse, it’s a “schedule 1” drug, which is defined as having:
Interestingly enough, that definition fits one of these substances, but it’s not pot.
I'm with you about how strange and bad our acceptance towards alcohol is. But that doesn't make fireworks automatically a good thing.
I'd go so far as to bar the consumption and sale!
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