[coding123]

Not everything that is a law should be. Why is marijuana even illegal? Can ANYONE even answer that in the context of alcohol being legal?

So yes, for this any many other reasons, it's good to keep secrets from the government.

By the way, pot is just an example, you can literally dig millions of unjust laws up if you looked, we're all just conditioned to OBEY.

[tomohawk]

Alcohol is involved in a very large number of deaths in the US every year. A very large proportion of suicides, automobile deaths, shooting deaths, diabetes deaths, and so on are directly caused by alcohol consumption.

It's not like we need more people running around with impaired decision making ability.

[eternalban]

Because they have different psychological effects. One makes you think, the other makes you stupid.