Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council-sponsored keg party in December flopped and the council had to sell much of the left-over beer at a discount. While many council members pointed to the new restrictive alcohol policy, others blamed the failure in part on insufficient advertising...
...University of California at Los Angeles, the values placed on money and power have skyrocketed in importance, while the "helping" values all plummeted in priority. As a result fewer and fewer people were entering fields like public service and education. These changing values also relate to increasing drug and alcohol abuse among those without jobs or college degrees, City Year organizers...
...alcohol is not legal out of tragic necessity, just because Prohibition was a practical failure. Alcohol is legal because Americans like to drink. Almost all drinkers indulge their habit in moderation, with no harmful effect. Quite the reverse: alcohol is a small but genuine contribution toward their pursuit of happiness. Society has decided that the pleasure of drinking is worth the equally genuine cost to society and pain to many individuals of alcoholism, automobile accidents and so on. What's more, this social decision is correct. The world would not be a better place without booze, even if that were...
...drugs, if it has dangerous long-term side effects of its own, if the problems of keeping it from children are insurmountable, these are all important and possibly determinative considerations. But society's ability to weigh these factors is hobbled by its inability to accept the obvious truth: like alcohol's, marijuana's function as a pleasure drug is a plus, not a minus in the calculation...
...human desire in safer directions, not to snuff it out, which is neither possible nor desirable. Thinking about the drug problem in this way focuses special attention on the role of marijuana. Current policy steers people like you and me, fellow bourgeois TIME readers, away from marijuana and toward alcohol. Is that a good idea? I'm not sure. Legalizing marijuana might steer the users of crack, heroin, PCP, etc., toward grass instead. Whether that's a good idea seems much clearer...