[throwaway5959]

Alcohol is doing damage at scale vs crack which is doing damage to a much smaller set of individuals. See drunk driving deaths vs crack driving deaths.

[throwcean]

It is consumed at another scale, so it does more damage in total. That doesn't make alcohol more harmful as a drug.

[throwaway5959]

It does if you look at it overall vs per capita. If crack was consumed at the scale of alcohol, yeah that’d be a big problem, but I think that’s obvious.