C2H5OH or "The tale of two livers"

I'm not the best person to talk about alcohol, for my experience with it has never been a personal one, and I am strongly biased against it, but I have to, and I will. The reason for alcohol's popularity is that it's easy to produce in any part of the world, but the reason for it's prevalence and status (Can anybody imagine a university degree in "tabacology" or "cocainology" in wich teachers explain and study the drugs only to explain wich one "tastes better" and describe them as "a valuable part of our culture to be promoted"?) are that it creates "only" moderate adicction, it produces no significant long-term damage below a Threshold, and it's consumers (except the very frequent ones) are not subjected to (almost any) discrimination or criticism. It's effects are akin to other depressant drugs, diminishing the brain's capabilities. In short, it makes you think less. I'm not going to enter into the discussion of whether people has the right to do whatever they want with their boddies, including making themselves more stupid, but I think it is obvious that we teenagers don't. I have to accept, no matter how hard it is to me, that moderate use of alcohol by responsible adults has no harmful effects (My head is gonna explode!). But even if that doesn't mean that all adults are responsible, as the state of Massachusetts proved yesterday (They were all drunk, ¿Right?), I accept "dry law" is not the solution. My plan to engage alcoholism is to long for this blog, and involves things that make the public opinion rather "jumpy", like chemicals in the watter supply or compulsory breathalyzers, so I will just ignore it. I think a good way to combat juvenile alcoholism is to make alcoholic beverages more expensive by taxing them (Limbaugh is right: Leftist think taxing is the solution to everything), specially if they are spirits, and giving the authority to policemen to confiscate any alcohol in the hands of people under 18. Also, those medieval fines on drunkenness should be reenacted, and the money could be used to fund AA-like associations, the rest being pocketed by the state. After all, we are still in a recession.

P.D. Really, how drunk do you have to be to break a filibuster-proof democrat congress that can (However mildly) bring change? Don't you have enough with Joe "Even I don't know how I managed to go with Gore back in 2000" Lieberman? Is either a drug or Pat Robertson is contagious.