Just what we need, more government control

[Perndog]

I agree. I'm just telling you how things *do* work, regardless of how they *should*.

Smoking, drinking, and prescription drugs are legal because:

1) Smoking wasn't considered harmful for an awfully long time so why would it be morally wrong? They don't apply morals ex post facto, they stick with tradition. And tradition says smoking is fine.

2) Jesus drank wine and so did an awful lot of good Christians back in the day. Therefore, alcohol is okay. Holy Communion, anyone?

3) Prescription drugs are helpful. The Bible never said there was anything wrong with medicine.

It's not so much that the religion is specifically anti-drug, it's that mind-altering drugs have been seen as morally wrong over the centuries in Western culture and have had much more of a stigma than the next closest thing, alcohol. Probably because most drug addicts in history were serious fuckups in one way or another, even if they happened to be some of the best writers/philosophers/whatever.