What would the world be like, if alcohol were illegal and marijuana were legal

kjl · 12-12-2010 01:42AM #1

OK, firstly the rules:

This is not a debate about why marijuana should be legal or the social implications of alcohol or how dangerous alcohol is.

The questions relates to how people would be, would there be bootleg alcohol? How would it affect nights out? How would people meet women etc.

Begin!

AlmightyCushion · 12-12-2010 01:44AM

I don't know about anyone else but I'd find it impossible to meet women. You can't spike a joint.

Saila · 12-12-2010 01:46AM

kjl wrote: »

OK, firstly the rules:

lmao!

12-12-2010 01:48AM

Well.. bars would probably be extremely boring. What with everyone just sitting down and not moving.

Superbus · 12-12-2010 01:49AM

The exact same.

krudler · 12-12-2010 01:49AM

They tried to make alchohol illegal in the 20s in America, didnt work very well, and again in the 90's, but a cunning local man was able to get around it by taking the beer buried in the town landfill, filling bowling balls with it then bowling them down a network of chutes to the local bar petshop, it was the cleverest thing he'd ever done.

bonerm · 12-12-2010 01:49AM

The world would be pretty much the same except that Domino's would have the same revenue as ExxonMobil.

Dean820 · 12-12-2010 01:49AM

2am would probably contain a lot of people eating at takeaways...oh wait.

Sea Sharp · 12-12-2010 01:49AM

We'd have to meet women like they do in counties where people aren't all binge drinking alcoholics.

kjl · 12-12-2010 01:55AM

krudler wrote: »

They tried to make alchohol illegal in the 20s in America, didnt work very well, and again in the 90's, but a cunning local man was able to get around it by taking the beer buried in the town landfill, filling bowling balls with it then bowling them down a network of chutes to the local bar petshop, it was the cleverest thing he'd ever done.

In the 90's, was the Beer Barron not Homer Simpson?

amacachi · 12-12-2010 01:57AM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I don't know about anyone else but I'd find it impossible to meet women. You can't spike a joint.

Amateur.

stevejr · 12-12-2010 02:03AM

krudler wrote: »

They tried to make alchohol illegal in the 20s in America, didnt work very well, and again in the 90's, but a cunning local man was able to get around it by taking the beer buried in the town landfill, filling bowling balls with it then bowling them down a network of chutes to the local bar petshop, it was the cleverest thing he'd ever done.

Ah yes...the beer-baron strikes again!

tony1kenobi · 12-12-2010 02:06AM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I don't know about anyone else but I'd find it impossible to meet women. You can't spike a joint.

Training Day?

General General · 12-12-2010 02:07AM

Our population would be around 400,000, if not less.

stevejr · 12-12-2010 02:10AM

Without booze the world would be Lionel Hutz's vision of a world without lawyers!!

Ah no seriously, in historic terms alcohol just got there first. Had Sir Raleigh brought marjuana from the New World instead of tobacco maybe we'd be debating the opposite scenario now.

stevejr · 12-12-2010 02:17AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Well.. bars would probably be extremely boring. What with everyone just sitting down and not moving.

Have you never had a joint at a party??

ChocolateSauce · 12-12-2010 02:20AM

More lung cancer, less liver cancer.

Tigger · 12-12-2010 02:27AM

better

maxxie · 12-12-2010 02:29AM

paranoid and lazy

Elevator · 12-12-2010 02:54AM

it would be like a place id wanna live in

where do i sign up?

Johro · 12-12-2010 03:04AM

'Watchin the game, havin a bud' would be different...
WAAASSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUP!:D
Always sounded pretty stoned to me.

Johro · 12-12-2010 03:13AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-slZNNxk9a4

RDM_83 again · 12-12-2010 03:50AM

Going to take a break from writing an archaeology essay. To write about archaeology.
If we didn't have alcohol Western Europe and China probably wouldn't be in the position they in now,
Alcoholic beverages were safer to drink than water all through the middle ages and previous eras.
Alcohol is a great bonding tool (nudge nudge wink wink) look at the spread of the Beaker Culture to see how people obviously like the idea of a piss up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_culture
Alcohol gives you calories which is sh-qte now but wasn't back then.
If you look at the places and people that didn't have alcohol look at how sh-te they were and the position they are in now (though it could be just be that like the last man to the pub they're just trying to make up for lost time by binging on it)
And finally if you drink (even more than recommended amount) you live longer than people that don't.suckers.

http://www.huliq.com/10061/heavy-drinkers-outlive-teetotalers-says-study
and thats a proper scientific study.booya

now back to essay and my glass of wine

Naikon · 12-12-2010 03:52AM

Johro wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-slZNNxk9a4

Damm, I hate family guy:)

Senna · 12-12-2010 04:01AM

You'd have people complaining on forums about how alcohol should be legalised... think of all the revenue the government could make....people complaining that alcohol isn't a gate-way drug and using other countries as examples of how legalising alcohol hasn't had negative effects on their population.

smellslikeshoes · 12-12-2010 04:14AM

All that would happen is instead of nipping out of the pub and around the corner for a spliff you would nip out of the coffee shop around the corner for a beer :pac:

Celly Smunt · 12-12-2010 04:21AM

i don't know about anyone else but i'd much rather face a group of stoners on the street compared to a group of drunks..

kjl · 12-12-2010 04:33AM

RDM_83 again wrote: »

And finally if you drink (even more than recommended amount) you live longer than people that don't.suckers.

http://www.huliq.com/10061/heavy-drinkers-outlive-teetotalers-says-study
and thats a proper scientific study.booya

While I appreciate the academic style referencing of your argument, that paticular study is bull sh1t, firstly it's 3000 people surveyed and there is a 9% shift, that is 270 people. All this study shows is that people die at different rates. Oh and next time I want to see Harved referencing style

jesmed · 12-12-2010 04:36AM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I don't know about anyone else but I'd find it impossible to meet women. You can't spike a joint.

Ya can spike joints.....;)

Zebra3 · 12-12-2010 04:40AM

Sea Sharp wrote: »

We'd have to meet women like they do in counties where people aren't all binge drinking alcoholics.

What counties are they?

kjl · 12-12-2010 04:49AM

Zebra3 wrote: »

What counties are they?

Saudi Arabia

What would the world be like, if alcohol were illegal and marijuana were legal

Comments