A friend of mine is a GP and I've got a few Doctors/consultants as custards. I asked them about the legal limit and they all gave the same answer. When a weekly limit is set it has to assume that some will take their "limit" in one hit. Apparently 14 units is often the tipping point for deciding that climbing to the top of a lamppost and falling off is a good idea. I don't have a link but apparently it's not just about liver damage??
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Looks like you've missed my point, which is that drugs are illegal and alcohol isn't. The problems arising from drug taking are due to a failure in upholding the law. They are a needless addition to the problems that drinking causes. A person with "drug problems" is a bad person to start with because they have chosen to break the law. If they then go on to commit other crimes or have medical problems due to the drugs, these cannot be compared on an equal footing to the perfectly legal activity of drinking beers, wines and spirits.
Do you have a local pub Nosey? Do you pop in and socialise with your neighbours? You should. A good pub is a wonderful thing.
I watched the video and it didn't explain anything that I didn't already know. I'm intrigued about where the 1 in 10 figure comes from, it sounds like nonsense. Smoking and lack of exercise are the biggest killers, surely?
How does that make alcohol any less dangerous? Alcohol directly causes and can be attributed to criminal behavior i.e. where people would ordinarily have gone about their normal lives, the intervention of alcohol has directly caused criminal behaviour. Violence is also a common theme where alcohol is concerned.
Sorry boyo but your defence of alcohol regards the law falls down flat at the first hurdle.
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You have missed my point again Nosey. I am not saying that alcohol is less dangerous than anything else; I am saying that illegal drug taking causes needless problems additional to any of the problems caused by imbibers of alcoholic drinks. Needless because of the illegality of the drugs in question; i.e. the problems caused by drug-takers have been allowed to happen by the government not enforcing the laws against those drugs.
Now Nosey - answer my question please: Do you have a local pub? Do you pop in and socialise with your neighbours and your fellow men?
Yes a local family themed pub and a more remote restaurant type boozer. The grittier pub in town I used to enjoy is now frequented by coke 'eds and they have took to fitting sandpaper on the cistern lids. Boozers and drugs eh, convenient bedfellows
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100%. My advice is have 3 or 4 days off every week and then moderate on the weekends, with the odd blowout for special occasions.
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Dry January is all very well but this year with a dry January many villages will end up with many dry years as small locals go broke. My local Landlord was desparately watching the news regarding any lock downs or changes to the CV19 restrictins. He needed a good week/December to stay in business - guess many are in the same financial quandary.
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what you expect ? The perils of covid
