Yes, it&#x27;s being bad at abstract thinking.  There&#x27;s not much that cocaine, heroin, or even meth can do to you that alcohol can&#x27;t.  It&#x27;s indisputable that we&#x27;ve made poor decisions regarding what drugs to ban -- marijuana as a Schedule I drug? Really? -- and IMHO the reason for that goes back to the fact that we didn&#x27;t have an appropriate basis for banning <i>any</i> of them in a supposedly-free society.<p>As other posters have suggested (and been duly modded down for it), prohibition isn&#x27;t really about the drugs.